In Hebrew, instead of saying something in the past was "difficult" or "complicated," the phrase is softened a little. They say, "it's not simple."
One such not-simple period is the stolen children of Yemen.
Here's the nutshell:
When Yemenite Jews came to Israel in the 1940s and early 1950s, some children were often taken and given away to Ashkenazi families, some of whom were survivors of the Shoah. Not all, and perhaps not even many; but some. The actual number doesn’t matter. There’s no number that would have been acceptable.
Sometimes, Yemenite parents were told that their children were sick and needed to be in the hospital. I read the story of one man whose adoptive mother simply showed up at the hospital and was told, "Pick a baby." His birth mother, like most of the Yemenite parents, was told that her child had died.
Having seen so many Ethiopian families trying to adjust to life in modern Israel in the years we’ve been here, I find it
