Institutional Abduction

The short film Institutional Abduction tells the story of three Mizrahi mothers whose babies were abducted from them shortly after birth. These stories would later become known as “The Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair,” depicting the institutional kidnapping and forced disappearance of thousands of babies and toddlers from migrant families in Israel, mainly in the 1950s. To this day, these mothers do not know what happened to their children, and their claims against the state are still ignored and silenced.

The film is part of Field Hospital X, a project by artist Prof. Aya Ben Ron, presented at the Israeli Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale.