Elon Moreh: what Wikipedia removed
Elon Moreh is a West Bank settlement where, in 2002, a Palestinian terrorist attacked the Gavish family home and opened fire. Through 2010 the opening said a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the village and burst into the home, and that “the lone terrorist managed to kill four residents before being killed himself.” Today the opening does not mention the attack at all, though terror survives 3 times in the body. A reader arriving at the opening today learns the settlement sits on land confiscated from two Palestinian villages and is considered illegal under international law, and not that a terrorist murdered four of its residents in 2002.
The word “settler” appeared 7 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| settler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| disputed | 1 | 0 | 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 opening’s description of the settlement’s location in Samaria was dropped when the article was rewritten around today’s legal-status framing.
- A passage noting that Peace Now’s lawyers disputed the settlement’s legal basis is gone; a reader no longer learns that the legality was contested by name.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 368042203):
Place in Israel Elon Moreh ( Template:Lang-he-n ), is an Israeli settlement located in the Samarian Hills of the West Bank northeast of Shechem / Nablus on the slopes of Mount Kabir ridge. Elon Moreh is where God told Abraham, “To your descendants will I give this land” (Genesis 12:6). Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham purchased land near Elon Moreh and Shechem (Genesis 33:19). The name of the village comes from a passage in the Torah relating to the first location where Abraham settled after crossing the Jordan River , And Avram passed through the land until the place of Shechem, until ELON MOREH, and the Cananite was then in the land. And God was revealed to Avram, and said: …
2025 (revision 1288860475):
Israeli settlement in the West Bank Place in Judea and Samaria Area Ark in Rahamei Tirtzah synagogue Elon Moreh ( Hebrew : אֵלוֹן מוֹרֶה ) is an Orthodox Jewish Israeli settlement in the West Bank . Located northeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus , on the slopes of the Mount Kabir ridge, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council . In 2024, it had a population of 2,169. Elon Moreh is located on land confiscated from two Palestinian villages, Azmut and Deir al-Hatab . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law , but the Israeli government disputes this. ^ “Regional Statistics” . Israel Central Bureau of Stati…
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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