Yemenite jews

Israel marks national day of commemoration for Yemenite Jewish aliyah

Education Ministry officials promised that, in addition to creating educational resources, the ministry is “trying to instill in teachers sensitivity to the different ethnic backgrounds."

 Jews from Yemen are seen heading to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.
DANCER ADVA YERMIYAHU will be accompanied by flamenco guitarist Manuel Cazas.

Ofra Haza’s melodies meet Andalusian flamenco in new Jerusalem premiere

A Yemenite synagogue in central Israel was desecrated, and many of the institute's prayer books were shredded, worshippers discovered just before Shabbat came in last week.

Yemenite synagogue in central Israel ransacked, Bibles ripped apart

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009

One of Yemen's last Jewish women makes aliyah to Israel - report


Healing a 70-year-old wound: On the disappearance of the Yemenite children

The Knesset’s Special Committee on the Disappearance of Yemenite and Balkan Children has reunited three families, and urges adopted Jewish children outside of Israel to make contact

Jewish immigrants from Yemen in a tent encampment in 1949 as they are visited by Israeli nurses.

New law allows graves of disappeared Yemenite children to be exhumed

Since the 1950s, more than 1,000 Israeli families have alleged their children were systematically kidnapped from Israeli hospitals and given to Ashkenazi families.

YEMENITE FAMILIES are shown in 1951 at Givat Ye’arim, a moshav just west of Jerusalem, whose initial residents arrived in Israel as part of the airlift of Jews from Yemen. (GPO)

DNA tests on exhumed bones of Yemenite children won’t be easy

Seventeen families of Yemenite origin who claimed their children were stolen and put up for adoption without their permission will undergo DNA testing.

Yemenite immigrants gather for a photo at Rosh Ha’ayin, in the early years of the state.

State Attorney to allow exhumation of immigrant Yemenite children’s graves

The affair of the missing immigrant Yemenite children relates to the disappearance of hundreds of babies and toddlers of Mizrahi descent, mainly from Yemen, during Israel's early days.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Rivlin turns his attention to missing Yemenite children

"The truth must be revealed. We are sufficiently strong today to cope with the truth"

YEMENITE FAMILIES are shown in 1951 at Givat Ye’arim, a moshav just west of Jerusalem, whose initial residents arrived in Israel as part of the airlift of Jews from Yemen. (GPO)

Watch: What happened to the missing Yemenite children?

A feature video from communications students at Bar-Ilan University in cooperation with the Jerusalem Post.

Screenshot from the Yemenite Affair video by students from Bar-Ilan University

State negotiating recognition of injustice in Yemenite children affair

PMO and Justice Ministry officials in direct talks with families of missing children, according to Kan report.

Yemenite Jews in Ma'abarot (Absorption Camp) Rosh Ha-Ayin in 1949

Geula of all trades

After working her way through medical school with some help from a surprising source, Dr. Geula Batsir, a pioneer in holistic medicine, has for 44 years been helping others

Dr. Geula Batsir in her clinic

West meets East

The Gary Bertini Choir performs at the Oud Festival


Kuwaiti donors fund aid packages for Yemeni Jews

Small Jewish community receives food, medical supplies from humanitarian group.

Kuwaiti donors fund aid packages for Yemeni Jews in need.