{"id":347827,"date":"2018-02-11T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-dna-tests-may-provide-answers-on-missing-babies\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:25:41","slug":"israel-dna-tests-may-provide-answers-on-missing-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-dna-tests-may-provide-answers-on-missing-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: DNA Tests May Provide Answers on Missing Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Thousands of Israeli families who have been searching in vain for answers since their babies mysteriously disappeared in the early 1950s \u2013 shortly after Israel\u2019s creation \u2013 have been thrown a lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery of the missing children has plagued Israel for decades, with evidence mounting that at least some of the babies were trafficked by hospitals and orphanages \u2013 possibly with the connivance of Israeli officials.<\/p>\n<p>Other documents indicate some children may have died during experiments conducted by hospitals without the parents\u2019 knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p>The families hope two new initiatives based on DNA testing \u2013 including the opening of graves \u2013 will reveal whether their children were abducted, as many have long suspected, or died of natural causes, as Israeli officials maintain.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the children \u2013 potentially as many as 8,000 \u2013 were from Jewish families that had recently immigrated to Israel from Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab Jews, known in Israel as the Mizrahim, have faced well-documented racism and discrimination from Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Three official inquiries have concluded that most of the babies died, even though many families lack death certificates and were not told where their babies were buried. A number of mothers have told of nurses seizing a healthy baby from their arms, only to inform them shortly afterwards that the baby had died.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli law has also hampered efforts to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/02\/israel-dna-tests-may-provide-answers-on-missing-babies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Israeli families who have been searching in vain for answers since their babies mysteriously disappeared in the early 1950s \u2013 shortly after Israel\u2019s creation \u2013 have been thrown a lifeline. The mystery of the missing children has plagued Israel for decades, with evidence mounting that at least some of the babies were trafficked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}