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HaOlam HaZeh was an Israeli weekly magazine known for investigative reporting that angered the Israeli establishment. The 2005 opening said its reporting “played an important part” in stories including “the massacre at Qibya… and the Kafr Qasim massacre.” Today’s opening describes its work only as “investigative reports… which provoked anger from the Israeli establishment,” without naming either massacre; the word survives 3 times elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today learns the magazine’s reporting angered Israel’s establishment, and not that two of the stories it covered were the Qibya and Kafr Qasim massacres.

The word “massacre” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The opening’s introductory sentence naming and translating the magazine was reworded when the article changed, not scrubbed.
  • The naming of the Qibya massacre as a story the magazine’s reporting was part of, including the beating of its journalists by the IDF unit that carried out the raid, is gone from the opening.
  • A see-also link to a list of Israeli newspapers is gone, dropped with the navigation aid it belonged to.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16771699):

Haolam Hazeh ( Hebrew : העולם הזה, meaning This World) was a weekly news magazine published in Israel until 1993 . Haolam Hazeh was founded in 1937 under the name Tesha Baerev (Hebrew: תשע בערב, literally Nine O’Clock in the Evening) but was renamed to Haolam Hazeh in 1946 . In 1950 it was bought by Uri Avnery , Shalom Cohen , and two others who soon withdrew. Under Avnery’s leadership, the magazine became famous for its highly unorthodox and irreverent style. Its news focussed on investigative reports, often presented in sensationalist fashion, which provoked anger from the Israeli establishment and disdain from Israel’s mainstream press. Government ministers regularly called for it to be s…

2025 (revision 1254575980):

Israeli youngsters are reading about Adolf Eichmann ‘s trial, on HaOlam HaZeh, 1964, Tel-Aviv. HaOlam HaZeh ( Hebrew : העולם הזה , lit. This World ) was a weekly news magazine published in Israel until 1993. The magazine was founded in 1937 under the name Tesha BaErev (Hebrew: תשע בערב, Nine in the Evening ) but was renamed HaOlam HaZeh in 1946. In 1950 it was bought by Uri Avnery , Shalom Cohen , and two others who soon withdrew. Under Avnery’s leadership, the magazine became famous for its highly unorthodox and irreverent style. Its news focussed on investigative reports, often presented in sensationalist fashion, which provoked anger from the Israeli establishment and disdain from Israel’…

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