Podcast: Motti Inbari on the Yemenite Children Affair

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, thousands of Middle Eastern Jews left their countries of origin and moved to Israel. Among them were the Jews of Yemen. There is a myth, believed by some in Israel and around the world, that upon the arrival of the Jews of Yemen in Israel, hundreds of their children were taken from them by government officials without consent and placed for adoption in the homes of Ashkenazi Israelis.