Child’s Grave to be Exhumed, as Part of Investigation into Kidnapped Yemenite Children

NETANYA (VINnews) — The grave of a three-year-old girl in Netanya is scheduled to be exhumed Tuesday, and the remains will undergo DNA testing.

The exhumation is part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic scandal involving Yemenite children in Israel.

The committee investigating disappearances of children from Yemen and other foreign countries in the late 1940s and 1950s discovered a blood relationship between the girl, Sa’ada, and the Karni family, who immigrated from Yemen to Israel in 1949.

The father was married to two wives, Shulamit and Esther. Esther’s daughter disappeared from their immigrant camp. The girl was apparently kidnapped along with her younger brother, against the objection and resistance of their older sister.

Several days after being taken, the mother was allowed to nurse her child, but tragically, she was later informed that her daughter died and was buried with her son.

After the incident, the father came to the infirmary and demanded to see his child, and while the medical team returned the eight-month-old boy, the daughter, Sa’ada, was not returned.

Horrifically, parents Avraham and Esther worked their entire lives to locate their daughter, but tragically died without learning of her fate.