Yehudit Durani was a young woman of 17 when she immigrated from Yemen in 1948. She learned Hebrew in the transit camp and apprenticed as a caregiver immediately upon her arrival to Israel. She worked as a caregiver in the nursery in the Ein Shemer camp.

She testified to an investigator that she would see foreign women come to the nursery, bring toys to the children, and play with them for several days. After a few days those children disappeared. In the beginning, she testified, she did not understand what the disappearance meant. ”For us Yemenites, there is no such guile,” she said.

Only years later, when the parents of children who had disappeared came to her, did she understand that the children had been kidnapped.

She said that babies were taken by force from their mothers, especially from mothers who had many children, although they were fully capable of taking care of them. “Whoever has 10 children, they go and bring them by force to the ward.” She testified that policemen would also come and take the children from the tents by force.

Yehudit testified that the children were healthy and that they were taken at night. When she asked why, they explained to her that the children were sick. However, she testified that they were not sick—“I would measure their temperature in the morning and at night,” she said.

If it happened that she was doing a night shift, she said, “they would tell me, ‘Go get something,’ or they would shoo me out of the ward. [When I would return and ask] Where is the boy? Where is he? they would tell me that his mother took him. They just told me nonsense.”