During the mass immigration to Israel from 1948 to the mid 1950s, hundreds if not thousands of babies disappeared from immigrant absorption and transit camps throughout Israel and from the transit camp Hashed in Yemen. According to testimonies given to the Kedmi Commission (1995–2001), the absorption policy governing Yemenite Jews required separating children from their parents; babies, who were housed in stone structures, were usually taken without parental knowledge or consent. Despite the over 1,000 testimonies given to state commissions, this affair is still contested in the public sphere, and officially unrecognized by the Israeli government. This story illustrates how Western definitions of motherhood, guided by the Zionist Eurocentric view of the Yemenite and other Mizrahi immigrants as inferior and unfit parents, ultimately became the ideological justification behind the power of the state to separate children from their mothers (Hertzog 2003, 2005, Lavie, 2010, 2014). For decades, the establishment’s efforts have been centered on framing family narratives as isolated cases, thereby hindering the ability of discussing the state’s responsibility in its full historical context. In this essay, I argue that the public denial of this affair is tightly linked to what Shohat (1988) defines as the Zionist narrative of ‘rescue.’ It brings to the forefront questions about Western domination, “otherness,” memory, and practices of silencing of dissenters. A breakthrough in the public discourse didn’t emerge until the dominance of the mainstream press was disrupted by alternative voices on social media (Madmoni-Gerber 2019). While a clear shift in the visibility of Mizrahi narratives can be marked, is the tide really turning? Can it be attributed to a change in ideology? Is this act as a first step toward restorative justice? Using a Cultural Studies approach, and especially Stuart Hall’s (89, 92, 96) notion of representation, I analyze mainstream media framing practices (Madmoni-Gerber 2009) in contrast with the emergence of new digital narratives. Through textual analysis and interviews with journalists and social activists, I locate contested narratives, while highlighting the connection between ideology and power, which ultimately motivated and dictated the news coverage of this Affair.