The Yemenite Children Affair:: A Moral Call

Tova Gamliel

doi:10.33137/wij.v17i2.36888

The Yemenite Children Affair: A Moral Call

Tova Gamliel

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

The immigration to Israel of most of Yemenite Jewry in 1948–1950, titled “Operation Magic Carpet” is symbolic of a miraculous leap in space and time from distant Yemen to the modern Jewish state. The Yemenite Jews’ utopian ethos, however, was far from able to foresee the trauma that awaited them in the transit camps where they were placed after their arrival in Israel: the kidnapping of thousands of infants in what became known as the “missing Yemenite-Jewish children affair.”

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17 pp
Number of pages	17
Journal	Women in Judaism
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.33137/wij.v17i2.36888
State	Published - Jun 2021

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

RAMBI Publication

rambi
Child health services -- Israel
Emergency housing -- Israel -- History -- 1948-1967
Governmental investigations -- Israel
Immigrants -- Medical care -- Israel
Jews, Yemeni -- Israel -- History
Missing children -- Israel
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Israel

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