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The Yemenite Children Affair was a tragic crisis in which about 1,000 children died between 1949 and 1954. Over the years, rumors spread that the kids were not dead, but kidnapped. This book tells the story from the health crisis to the investigations and the conspiracy theories that have developed ever since.
Sommario
Chapter 1
Policy, Medicine, and Health Challenges during the Great Immigration to Israel in the 1950s
Dorit Weiss and Shifra Shvarts
Chapter 2
A Continuous Tragedy: From "Operation Magic Carpet" to the "Yemenite Children Affair"
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Chapter 3
The Absorption Circumstances of the Yemenite Jewry in Israel and the Historical Association to the "Missing Yemenite Children Affair"
Dov Levitan
Chapter 4
The Missing Children's Epidemiological Database: The Lights and Shadows of Interlocking Historical Sources and Perspectives
Adiya Shubi and Yechiel Michael Barilan
Chapter 5
The Archive and the Public Discourse
Roy Peled
Chapter 6
The Documents Don't Matter: The Affair of the Yemenite Children and the Archives
Yaacov Lozowick
Chapter 7
Testimonies at the Committees of Inquiry over the Years into the Yemenite Children Affair and Insights for Oral History
Avi Picard
Chapter 8
The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory of the Yemenite Children Affair: From Ultra-Orthodoxy, Meir Kahane, and Israel's Radical Left
Sariel Birnbaum
Chapter 9
Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair: Messianic Expectations, Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Israel's Radical Right
Motti Inbari
Chapter 10
The Israeli Left and the Yemenite Children Affair: How a Post-Colonial Narrative Became an "Alternative Truth" in Radical Left Circles in Israel
Nirit Ben Ari
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Edited by Motti Inbari - Contributions by Dorit Weiss; Shifra Shvarts; Esther Meir-Glitzenstein; Dov Levitan; Adiya Shubi; Yechiel Michael Barilan; Roy Peled; Yaacov Lozowick; Avi Picard; Motti Inbari; Sariel Birnbaum and Nirit Ben Ari
