The testimony of brother Ezra Zephaniah:

My parents immigrated separately, in youth immigration, straight to the kibbutzim in the north.

At some point, before the establishment of the state, they met in Jaffa - my father moved there, and my mother visited a friend. I was born in February 1955 in Dajani in Jaffa.

I have an older brother who was born in 1951 in the Jaffa area.

Between my brother and I, there was another pregnancy. She came to the hospital at the end of that pregnancy. She gave birth in the hospital, and they told her that child was dead and "go home". They released her without a document, without anything.

She told my dad. They didn't believe there was anything beyond it. They were innocent people from Iraq, reserved and not speaking. They believed in the establishment most strongly, and they did not suspect that there was anything.

From time to time she talked about this event, but not strongly.

One day she was sitting with her grandchildren, and she saw a program on TV about the "kidnapping of Yemeni children," and she suddenly told everyone firmly - this is what they did to me!

After that, again, she was afraid to open it. Everyone around her told her that it couldn't be. That the government would not have done that. But she believed they did.