Dr. Natan Shifris, a researcher who published a book claiming that the abduction of Yemeni children was institutionalized, participated in a wave of protests over the affair led by Rabbi Uzi Meshulam in 1994.
Dr. Shipris dedicates his life to the affair. He recently authored the book "My Children Went Where?
The Yemeni Children Affair - The Abduction and Denial "(2019), continues to publish research on the subject and defines itself as one who is recruited for the affair until it is resolved.
Ahead of Awareness Day for the Yemeni Children's Affair, Dr. Shipris explains its importance: "More than 2,400 children were missing in the affair.
We have name lists of about 1,050 children from the various committees, and the rest from individual complaints that have come to the various associations and that I have collected as part of my research.
"Today it is claimed that Yemeni children were sick with epidemics and serious diseases that were shortened by them," says Dr. Shifris, From then on, the strange phenomenon of mass child disappearance continued among them, and to the extent of hundreds of children.
Why were mainly Yemeni children harmed by this?
After all, there were other Mizrahi testimonies? "
Dr. Tsipris,
He said, "The absorption system established a unique institution in the Yemeni immigrant camps, unlike any other immigrant camp - infant homes to which the healthy, soft-spoken children were systematically collected, under the pretext of preventive medicine. From there they were sent to remote hospitals, always in the dead of night, always without According to most of the evidence relating to these institutions, the mother would come in the morning to breastfeed, and find an empty bed. Access to children, and usually within a day to a few days they were notified of death.
"From the same institution of the healthy, within the same year, from the end of 1949 to the end of 1950, the same children disappeared," states Dr. Shipris, In institutions where only their health can be guaranteed.
"These large-scale hospitalizations were done behind the parents' backs, and many were not returned to their families."
What was the purpose of the state in such an institutional abduction?
"This was the spirit of the time and the spirit of the times, according to which women from Islamic countries do not know how to take care of their children, and have low parental ability and neglect their children. "Taking the children out of the camps, isolating them from the mothers, because they prevent help from the children."
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