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Givat Harel: what Wikipedia removed

The 2010 article recorded that the community is named for 18-year-old Harel Bin Nun, “shot and killed by Arab terrorists” in 1998. Terror now appears 0 times anywhere in the article.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

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  • The community is named after a murdered 18-year-old. The murder stayed; the word for his killers went.
  • Location detail, removed.

Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

2010 (revision 353325859):

Interior of synagogue completed in 2008 Israelite horned altar in Givat Harel Givat Harel ( Template:Lang-he ) is an Israeli settlement established in 1998 in the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in the northern West Bank north of Nahal Shilo. It is situated just off Highway 60 on a hill between Eli and Shilo , and above a spring named Ein Oz. Vineyard, Givat Harel Giv’at Harel is named after 18-year old Harel Bin Nun, who was shot and killed by Arab terrorists on August 5, 1998, while he and his friend Shlomo Liebman were on civilian security patrol in the vicinity of Yitzhar . Givat Harel, now home to nearly 40 families, was established by Bin Nun’s brothers, who grew up…

2026 (revision 1360480818):

Israeli settlement in the West Bank Home in Givat Harel overlooking vineyard Israelite horned altar in Givat Harel Givat Harel ( Hebrew : גבעת הראל ) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank , built as an illegal outpost in 1998 and legalized in 2023 by the Israeli government. The settlement was illegally established in 1998 mostly on Palestinian private lands. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in the northern West Bank , north of Nahal Shilo. Givat Harel is situated just off Highway 60 (Israel-Palestine) , next to the Palestinian village of Sinjil , whose lands were “forcefully seized by Israeli settlers ” in order to construct Givat Harel. In February …

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