Café Moment bombing: what Wikipedia removed
The Café Moment bombing killed 11 Israeli civilians in a Jerusalem coffee shop during the Second Intifada. Through 2015 the opening called it “a Palestinian terrorist attack.” Today the opening calls it a “Palestinian suicide bombing,” with the word terror surviving 8 times in the body but not in the opening. A reader today learns a bombing happened during the Second Intifada but not that it was categorized as a terrorist attack.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 8. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 specific time and location detail, that the bombing occurred in Jerusalem on 9 March 2002 at 22:30, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 351151931):
The Café Moment bombing occurred in Jerusalem on 9 March 2002 at 22:30 PM. A Hamas suicide bomber walked into the cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets about 100 meters from the prime minister ‘s residence, and detonated a powerful explosive charge that completely gutted the restaurant. Eleven people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously. ^ Goldenberg, Suzanne (March 11, 2002). “Bombing shatters illusions in an oasis of civility: The killing of 11 people in a cafe used by liberal Israelis shows no one is safe” . The Guardian (UK). ^ “Suicide bombing at Cafe Moment in Jerusalem” . March 9, 2002.
2025 (revision 1283802697):
2002 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem The Café Moment bombing was a Palestinian suicide bombing of a coffee shop in downtown Jerusalem , that killed 11 Israeli civilians and left 65 others wounded. It was carried out on March 9, 2002, during the Second Intifada . ^ Nayar, Pramod K. (September 28, 2015). Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology . John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118781005 .
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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