Dr. Motti Inbari is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

In this fascinating read, the authors have shown that the notion of a conspiracy to kidnap Yemenite children should be yet another topic to be added to the list of conspiracy theories, heavy on drama and emotion, but lacking the slightest bit of evidence.

• Chapter 1Policy, Medicine, and Health Challenges during the Great Immigration to Israel in the 1950sDorit Weiss and Shifra ShvartsChapter 2A Continuous Tragedy: From “Operation Magic Carpet” to the “Yemenite Children Affair”Esther Meir-GlitzensteinChapter 3The Absorption Circumstances of the Yemenite Jewry in Israel and the Historical Association to the “Missing Yemenite Children Affair” Dov LevitanChapter 4The Missing Children’s Epidemiological Database: The Lights and Shadows of Interlocking Historical Sources and Perspectives Adiya Shubi and Yechiel Michael BarilanChapter 5The Archive and the Public Discourse Roy Peled Chapter 6The Documents Don’t Matter: The Affair of the Yemenite Children and the ArchivesYaacov LozowickChapter 7Testimonies at the Committees of Inquiry over the Years into the Yemenite Children Affair and Insights for Oral History Avi PicardChapter 8The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory of the Yemenite Children Affair: From Ultra-Orthodoxy, Meir Kahane, and Israel's Radical Left Sariel BirnbaumChapter 9Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair: Messianic Expectations, Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Israel’s Radical Right Motti InbariChapter 10The Israeli Left and the Yemenite Children Affair: How a Post-Colonial Narrative Became an "Alternative Truth" in Radical Left Circles in Israel Nirit Ben Ari

Dr. Motti Inbari is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

In this fascinating read, the authors have shown that the notion of a conspiracy to kidnap Yemenite children should be yet another topic to be added to the list of conspiracy theories, heavy on drama and emotion, but lacking the slightest bit of evidence.

• Chapter 1Policy, Medicine, and Health Challenges during the Great Immigration to Israel in the 1950sDorit Weiss and Shifra ShvartsChapter 2A Continuous Tragedy: From “Operation Magic Carpet” to the “Yemenite Children Affair”Esther Meir-GlitzensteinChapter 3The Absorption Circumstances of the Yemenite Jewry in Israel and the Historical Association to the “Missing Yemenite Children Affair” Dov LevitanChapter 4The Missing Children’s Epidemiological Database: The Lights and Shadows of Interlocking Historical Sources and Perspectives Adiya Shubi and Yechiel Michael BarilanChapter 5The Archive and the Public Discourse Roy Peled Chapter 6The Documents Don’t Matter: The Affair of the Yemenite Children and the ArchivesYaacov LozowickChapter 7Testimonies at the Committees of Inquiry over the Years into the Yemenite Children Affair and Insights for Oral History Avi PicardChapter 8The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory of the Yemenite Children Affair: From Ultra-Orthodoxy, Meir Kahane, and Israel's Radical Left Sariel BirnbaumChapter 9Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair: Messianic Expectations, Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Israel’s Radical Right Motti InbariChapter 10The Israeli Left and the Yemenite Children Affair: How a Post-Colonial Narrative Became an "Alternative Truth" in Radical Left Circles in Israel Nirit Ben Ari

Dr. Motti Inbari is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

In this fascinating read, the authors have shown that the notion of a conspiracy to kidnap Yemenite children should be yet another topic to be added to the list of conspiracy theories, heavy on drama and emotion, but lacking the slightest bit of evidence.

• Chapter 1Policy, Medicine, and Health Challenges during the Great Immigration to Israel in the 1950sDorit Weiss and Shifra ShvartsChapter 2A Continuous Tragedy: From “Operation Magic Carpet” to the “Yemenite Children Affair”Esther Meir-GlitzensteinChapter 3The Absorption Circumstances of the Yemenite Jewry in Israel and the Historical Association to the “Missing Yemenite Children Affair” Dov LevitanChapter 4The Missing Children’s Epidemiological Database: The Lights and Shadows of Interlocking Historical Sources and Perspectives Adiya Shubi and Yechiel Michael BarilanChapter 5The Archive and the Public Discourse Roy Peled Chapter 6The Documents Don’t Matter: The Affair of the Yemenite Children and the ArchivesYaacov LozowickChapter 7Testimonies at the Committees of Inquiry over the Years into the Yemenite Children Affair and Insights for Oral History Avi PicardChapter 8The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory of the Yemenite Children Affair: From Ultra-Orthodoxy, Meir Kahane, and Israel's Radical Left Sariel BirnbaumChapter 9Uzi Meshulam and the Yemenite Children Affair: Messianic Expectations, Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy, and Israel’s Radical Right Motti InbariChapter 10The Israeli Left and the Yemenite Children Affair: How a Post-Colonial Narrative Became an "Alternative Truth" in Radical Left Circles in Israel Nirit Ben Ari