Ephraim Katzir: what Wikipedia removed
Ephraim Katzir was president of Israel from 1973 to 1978. Through 2005 the opening said his brother Aharon, a chemical physicist, was murdered in 1972 during the Lod Airport Massacre. Today the word massacre survives once elsewhere in the article, but the opening carries only his birth, death and years in office. A reader arriving now learns when Katzir served as president, not that his brother was killed in the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre.
The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 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 remainder of the sentence, a navigation template fragment, dropped along with the passage naming his brother’s murder in the massacre.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 16787867):
Ephraim Katzir (born May 16 1916 ) is an Israeli biophysicist and Israeli Labour Party politician . He served as the President of Israel for one 5-year term, from 1973 until 1978 . File:Ephraim Katzir.jpg Ephraim Katzir, 4th president of Israel. Katzir was born in Kiev , Ukraine with the name Ephraim Katchalski. He changed his last name to the Hebrew name Katzir in 1973, after being elected President by the Knesset . In 1925 he immigrated with his family to Palestine. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he received a Ph.D. degree. After studying abroad, he returned to Israel and became head of the Department of Biophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. …
2025 (revision 1297621552):
President of Israel from 1973 to 1978 Ephraim Katzir ( Hebrew : אפרים קציר , romanized : Ep̄rayim Qaṣir ; 16 May [ O.S. 3 May] 1916 – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the president of Israel from 1973 until 1978. ^ Cite error: The named reference parish-book was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). ^ Arnon, Ruth ; Sela, Michael; Shindler, Colin (2016). “Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir. 16 May 1916 – 30 May 2009” . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 62 : 267– 275. doi : 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0015 .
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