Jerusalem – Israeli Bill Will Allow Graves to Be Dug Up In Search For Missing Yemenite Children

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    FILE - Israelis protest as they mark a Memorial and awareness day of the Yemenite Children Affair in Jerusalem on June 21, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Jerusalem – In light of the renewed investigation into the fate of immigrant children who went missing in the 1950s, Likud MK Nurit Koren proposed legislation that would allow the graves of deceased minors suspected of being one of the missing kids to be dug up. The bill is on the Ministerial Committee for Legislation’s agenda for Sunday.

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    Koren is chairwoman of a Knesset committee on the renewed efforts to find out what happened to the children, most of whom were Yemenite. In 2016, the state declassified its archival material on the topic, but the issue continues to generate interest. Families found documents they had never seen before, but many also found contradictory information, or details that are different from those listed on the graves in which they were told their relatives were interred.

    Two weeks ago, hundreds of people protested in Jerusalem, claiming that the Yemenite children were systematically taken without their parents’ consent and given to Ashkenazi (European Jewish) families.

    The bill’s stated purpose is “to allow the investigation of the truth about the death and burial place of minors from Yemen, the East and Balkans whose death notices were given to their families in the years 1948-1970 without allowing them to identify and bury them.”

    As such, should the bill pass, courts will be able to allow deceased minors to be exhumed in order to collect genetic material and find out whether the body belongs to a relative.

    The request to the court must be submitted by someone claiming to be a relative of someone whose case was brought up by one of the three state investigations into the matter, and the court has to find that there is a reasonable possibility that the claim is true.


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    6 years ago

    Ever heard of the saying “digging ur own grave & then covering urself with it”? This is a prime example. The Zionistic filthy regime “exhumed” kids from their parents to make a big buck out of them. Either they were put up for adoption or they died of starvation or what not?? Now they come back, the next generation of despicable Zionists and wanna appease the innocent Yemenite community by exhuming yiddishe bodies. What an upside down world. Leave these innocent neshumalach alone. Nothing will bring them back. This Yemenite Parsha is one of the saddest despicable era of the Zionistic regime. We dont need to get to the bottom of it. Its OVER. Nothing will come out of it. Its the sad truth.

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    6 years ago

    To # 1

    Not really a True Yid if all you spew is hatred.

    “Nothing will bring them back” … sounds a lot like you are Kofer in Techiyas Hamessim…

    וַיֹּאמֶר, אֵלַי, בֶּן-אָדָם, הָעֲצָמוֹת הָאֵלֶּה כָּל-בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל הֵמָּה; הִנֵּה אֹמְרִים, יָבְשׁוּ עַצְמוֹתֵינוּ וְאָבְדָה תִקְוָתֵנוּ–נִגְזַרְנוּ לָנוּ
    לָכֵן הִנָּבֵא וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵיהֶם, כֹּה-אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, הִנֵּה אֲנִי פֹתֵחַ אֶת-קִבְרוֹתֵיכֶם וְהַעֲלֵיתִי אֶתְכֶם מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶם, עַמִּי; וְהֵבֵאתִי אֶתְכֶם, אֶל-אַדְמַת יִשְׂרָאֵל
    וִידַעְתֶּם, כִּי-אֲנִי יְהוָה: בְּפִתְחִי אֶת-קִבְרוֹתֵיכֶם, וּבְהַעֲלוֹתִי אֶתְכֶם מִקִּבְרוֹתֵיכֶם–עַמִּי.
    וְנָתַתִּי רוּחִי בָכֶם וִחְיִיתֶם, וְהִנַּחְתִּי אֶתְכֶם עַל-אַדְמַתְכֶם; וִידַעְתֶּם כִּי-אֲנִי יְהוָה, דִּבַּרְתִּי וְעָשִׂיתִי–נְאֻם-יְהוָה