“In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children”: Docu-Poetic Theatre in Israel

Yoldot is a docu-poetic performance that critically presents the affair of the abduction of Jewish children from families that immigrated primarily from Yemen in the 1950s. Facilitated by the healthcare system, the abducted children were put up for illegal adoption. Yoldot frames the events as less of an exception and more a regular phenomenon enabled by the overall orientalist and racist nature of the Israeli medical system.