Beersheba: what Wikipedia removed
Beersheba is the largest city in Israel’s Negev desert. Through 2005 the opening reported bus bombings in the city and that Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attacks. Today the opening makes no mention of the bombings or Hamas at all, and militant is nowhere in the article. A reader today learns nothing from the opening about the bus bombings or who claimed responsibility for them.
The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| occupation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The sentence reporting bus bombings in Beersheba and Hamas’s claim of responsibility is gone, and a reader today learns nothing about the attacks from the opening paragraph.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17958399):
Beersheba or Be’er Sheva ( Hebrew בְּאֶר שֶׁבַע , Standard Hebrew Bəʼer Šévaʻ , Tiberian Hebrew Bəʼer Šéḇaʻ or בְּאֶר שָׁבַע Bəʼer Šāḇaʻ ; Arabic بِئْرْ اَلْسَبْعْ Biʼr as-Sabʻ ) is a city in Israel . It is the largest city of the Negev desert, and often known as the “Capital of the Negev” in the Southern District of Israel . According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2001 the city had a total population of 177,900. The population in 2003 was around 200,000. It is the administrative center for the southern region and home of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev , Soroka Hospital, and the Beer-Sheva Symphonietta. The city dates back at least to t…
2025 (revision 1297450108):
City in Israel This article is about the city in Israel. For other uses, see Beersheba (disambiguation) . City in Israel Beersheba ( / b ɪər ˈ ʃ iː b ə / beer- SHEE -bə ; Hebrew : בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע , romanized : Bəʾēr Šeḇaʿ ), officially Be’er-Sheva ( / b ɛər ˈ ʃ ɛ v ə / bear- SHEH -və ), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel . Often referred to as the “Capital of the Negev”, it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most populous Israeli city with a population of 223,587, and the second-largest city in the area (after Jerusalem ), with a total area of 117,500 dunams (117.5 square kilometres). Human habitation near present-day Bee…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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