JERUSALEM

Dozens of Jewish Yemenis demonstrated in front of the Israeli prime minister and president’s residences in Jerusalem, calling on the state to recognize "systematic, state-sponsored kidnapping of Yemenite children".

According to Israeli daily Haaretz, some 200 demonstrators were carrying children’s posters bearing the dates of their abduction during Israel’s early years.

An Israeli state committee tasked in 2001 with examining allegations of the children’s disappearance had determined that there was no factual basis of organized “abduction” of Yemenite children.

"The demonstration was organized by the Amram organization to mark a day of awareness of the hundreds or thousands of missing children born to Jewish immigrants from Yemen, other Middle Eastern countries and the Balkans," it said.