Abduction: A Crime Against Humanity

Starting in 1952 there was a sharp rise of infant mortality in the Negev. More than 300 babies dying during their first week after birth, the doctors said a contagious disease had taken them. Requiring instant burial the Rabbis removed the dead infants before the parents had a last chance to see them. Over the years their distraught loved ones wondered in vain what had happened to their children. In 1997 they began to dig up the graves finding most of them empty! The doctors had signed false death certificates and the Rabbis had staged funerals. Also guilty the social workers had sold the babies to childless couples.

In 1952 a few days after giving birth to Chaim
His mother was resting under sedative
When the nurses awakened her with the terrible news her son was dead from a contagious disease requiring quick burial
The Rabbi had officiated at the funeral
The doctor was getting the Death Certificate
Nobody had even a photo
Of the baby all that remained of him were a few memories.
There was a Certificate from the Ministry of the Interior.
The National Insurance Institute had furnished a tiny tombstone for Chaim.
Doubt was the only legacy
Chaim had been only the first to expire of hundreds of infants.

For a three-year period the modern facility at Dimona had the highest infant mortality rate in the world.
The pregnant women abandoned the hospital to give birth at home.
For 45 years parents pressed for an answer
They appealed to every authority in the country.
Suing in every court they had to pay enormous fines levied by angry judges. Many demonstrated and a few who had become rowdy sat in prison for it.

In 1997 the family agreed to exhume Chaim’s body
A desperate move it ran counter to every tenet in the Jewish religion.
Chaim’s grave was empty!
The Rabbis said it was a punishment from God.
Then, 28 more couples found their infants’ graves vacant as well.
The Interior Ministry continued the lie of 45 years
They admitted forging 29 Death Certificates but said that was the total.
After they dug up 200 more empty graves the National Insurance Office put the blame on Rabbis and social workers who had sold the babies to the highest bidder.
Chaim was alive in San Francisco
When they met his mother was a stranger to him.
The government employees had done such crimes against humanity for two generations.
Very few of them comprehend what evil they have done.