Ashkenazi elites irradiated 100,000 Sephardic children in 1950s Israel

In the 1950s, Israel carried out a massive X-ray radiation experiment on thousands of Sephardic Jewish children, disguised as medical treatment, with devastating consequences for their health.

## The X-ray experiment

In the mid-1950s, Israel carried out a mass radiation program that affected an entire generation of children and young people, mostly of Sephardic origin. The director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, **Dr. Chaim Sheba**, traveled to the **USA** in **1951** and returned with **seven X-ray machines** from the US army. These were used in an experiment in which each child received a dose of radiation **35,000 times** the permitted level to the head. The **US** government paid the Israeli government **300 million Israeli liras** annually for this program, a sum that would be worth billions of dollars today, far exceeding the entire Health budget of the time.

## Deception and consequences

To carry out the experiment, the children were taken on supposed "school trips", while their parents were told it was a treatment for scalp ringworm. The results were tragic: an estimated **six thousand** of the children died shortly after receiving the doses. Many of the survivors developed cancer over the years, and others still suffer from chronic illnesses, including neurological disorders such as epilepsy, amnesia, Alzheimer's disease, chronic headaches and psychosis. The documentary addressing this subject, titled "100,000 Radiations", shows the profound impact of these massive doses on the victims.

## A eugenics program

The documentary makes clear that this operation was no accident. The danger of X-rays had been known for decades, and the official guidelines of **1952** set a maximum dose of **0.5 rad** for children in Israel. The children were deliberately exposed to far higher doses. It has been pointed out that only Sephardic children were subjected to this radiation, while **Ashkenazi** children were returned to their classes. Historians have described the "ringworm" operation as a eugenics program aimed at eliminating what they saw as the "weak seeds" of society, citing Jewish leaders such as **Nahum Goldmann** and **Levi Eshkol** in connection with anti-Sephardic racist ideas.