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‘Ragged rats’: London exhibit captures the racism that tore apart Mizrahi families
The new exhibition highlights the overlooked role of diaspora Zionist organizations in the kidnapping and adoption of Israel’s Yemenite children.
By
Leeor Ohayon
December 1, 2022
Can Zehava Galon make Meretz matter?
Zehava Galon has returned to lead Meretz out of a sense of duty. To defeat resurgent Kahanism, she says she is willing to compromise on policy. But can she really influence her potential coalition partners?
By
Meron Rapoport
September 14, 2022
Why is Israel digging up the graves of Mizrahi children?
After years of pressure, Israel is taking measures to uncover the fate of children, mostly Yemenite, who disappeared in the 1950s. +972 spoke with two activists about the families’ long road to justice.
By
Ben Reiff
August 24, 2022
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The Mizrahi left at a crossroads
On the verge of closure, a magazine that served as the ideological home of Israel’s Mizrahi left lives another day. But what do its financial woes reveal about the movement’s struggle in Israeli society?
By
Ben Reiff
December 16, 2021
Families of kidnapped Mizrahi babies are having a #MeToo moment
For years, the Israeli establishment blamed the victims and dismissed their stories. Now, activists are claiming back the narrative.
By
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber
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Haokets
January 24, 2020
The most critical issues Israelis won’t be voting on in the next election
Israelis will head to the polls next April to elect a new government. But none of the major parties are offering any real change when it comes to the occupation or social justice issues. This is where the left has a role to play. Amid a number of coalition crises and the possibility of an indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin…
By
Haggai Matar
December 24, 2018
Veteran left-wing journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery dies at 94
Avnery, who helped expose some of the darkest chapters in Israeli history and was a fervent opponent of the occupation, inspired generations of Israeli journalists. By +972 Magazine Staff Uri Avnery, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists and a seminal peace activist who was among the first Israelis to advocate for a sovereign Palestinian state, died…
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+972 Magazine
August 20, 2018
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fake supporter of democracy
Israel’s prime minister wants Iranian protesters to know they have his full support in their struggle against their government. The same can’t be said about millions of people under his own government’s rule. Benjamin Netanyahu likes to present himself as a fervent supporter of democracy and pro-democracy protests. In fact he is a very selective…
By
Edo Konrad
June 29, 2018
Hundreds demand recognition, reparations for Israel’s practice of family separation
Hundreds of protesters chant outside Netanyahu’s residence and block major thoroughfares in Jerusalem demanding recognition, reparations, and accountability for the abduction of Yemenite, Balkan, and Mizrahi children by state authorities between the late 1940s and the 1960s. Roughly 350 people demonstrated outside of the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Thursday, calling on the government to officially…
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Haggai Matar
June 22, 2018
Hundreds protest to recognize the disappearance of Yemenite children
Hundreds block central Tel Aviv street while calling on the government to recognize one of the most harrowing chapters in Israeli history. Over 500 people demonstrated Monday evening in central Tel Aviv, calling on the state to recognize its responsibility for the Yemenite children’s affair, which took place in the years after the country was…
By
Haggai Matar
September 26, 2017
Why is Israel still denying the kidnapping of Yemenite children?
Between the years 1948 and 1952, thousands of babies, children of mostly Yemenite immigrants to the newly-founded State of Israel, were taken away from their parents. After decades of being silenced, it is time to look those parents in the eye and say: you were wronged. This is not a tall order, it is the…
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+972 Magazine
September 25, 2017
This summer’s wave of protests gives us reason to be optimistic
From asylum seekers demanding their wages to protests against the Gaza blackout to raising awareness over disappeared Yemenite babies, this summer’s protests give us every reason to stay optimistic about this place. It’s hot outside. The Israeli summer often brings with it a new wave of social and political protests, and yet it looks like summer 2017 will be…
By
Haggai Matar
June 24, 2017
One of Israel’s most painful chapters comes to life in Jerusalem
After 60 years of covering up the disappearance of hundreds of Yemeni babies in the early years of the state, the time has come for justice and accountability. There were moments during Wednesday night’s rally to commemorate the Yemenite children affair in which I wondered how the tiles beneath us, in Jerusalem’s Mashbir Square, failed to crack…
By
Orly Noy
June 22, 2017
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