Will mystery of Israel's missing Yemenite children soon be solved? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Yuval Avivi

Yuval Avivi

Jul 21, 2016

Yona Musa, 76, from a Yemeni descent, poses with a portrait of her and her husband on June 29, 2016 at her home in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
Musa is one of the thousands of Israelis, mainly from Jewish Yemenite families, who claim their babies were abducted more than 60 years ago and handed to adoption. Such stories of babies from immigrant families disappearing have been told in Israel for decades, but growing calls to unseal official documents on the allegations mean new light could so — Yona Musa, 76, an Israeli of Yemeni descent, poses with a portrait of her and her husband at her home in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, June 29, 2016. Musa is one of the thousands of Israelis, mainly from Jewish Yemenite families, who claim their babies were abducted more than 60 years ago and handed over for adoption. — MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images

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Frecha Amar, 84, from a Moroccan descent, poses with a picture of her baby, who she says was abducted in 1958, on June 29, 2016 at her home in Kfar Chabad, near Tel-Aviv.
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