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


The tragedy and shame of 1950s Israel’s treatment of Yemenite children

“It was chaos,” has always been the excuse among the mostly European Jewish immigrants who were responsible for running the hospitals in the 1950s.

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

Historian attributes mystery of missing Yemenite children to chaos, ill health, paternalism

"No Yemenite child was kidnapped," says Bar-Ilan University’s Dr. Dov Levitan.

Prof. Dov Levitan

State Archives launches website to trace missing Yemenite children

Sealed case files regarding the missing Yemenite children are now available online for the first time.

State archives

Israel makes public 200,000 documents on missing Yemenite children

Netanyahu: Declassifying information "corrects historical injustice."

Immigrants from Yemen in a tent encampment in 1949.

Knesset committee approves release of Yemenite Children Affair documents

During the early days after the establishment of the state, from 1948 to 1954, hundreds of babies and toddlers of families of Mizrahi descent, mostly from Yemen, mysteriously disappeared.

JEWISH IMMIGRANTS from Yemen in 1950 after their arrival to Israel

Israel to release classified documents on Yemenite Children Affair

In 2001, the state commission decided to seal numerous documents until 2071 regarding the disappearance of Mizrahi-descended children in the 1950s.

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

On wings of eagles: Operation to bring Yemenite Jews to Israel

Operation Wings of Eagles, also known as Operation Magic Carpet, began in December 1948 and lasted until December 1949, with minor waves of aliya taking place in the 1950s.

Yemenite Jews en route to Israel

Behind the Lines: Tremor in Yemen

The targeting of US Navy ships is yet another sign that Iran and its allies are growing increasingly emboldened.

Shi'ite Muslim rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2013

Start-up launches effort to reunify families of Yemenite Children Affair

The MyHeritage company clarified that it had no intention or ability to itself investigate the chain of events which led to the disappearance of said children, and that its purpose was solely family

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

Les enfants volés

Peu après la création de l’Etat, des centaines de bébés yéménites et séfarades auraient été enlevés après leur naissance pour être confiés à des familles ashkénazes.

Tsvi Amiri, placé dans une famille ashkénaze