HaSharon Junction: what Wikipedia removed
HaSharon Junction, also known as Beit Lid Junction, is the site of a 1995 attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The 2010 opening called it “the Beit Lid massacre, a 1995 suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” and named a monument to its victims. Today’s opening calls the same event “the Beit Lid suicide bombing” throughout; the word massacre no longer appears anywhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today learns a suicide bombing happened at the junction, and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once named it the Beit Lid massacre.
The word “massacre” 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.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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 monument caption naming the Beit Lid massacre was renamed to the Beit Lid suicide bombing.
- The event’s own name changed from the Beit Lid massacre to the Beit Lid suicide bombing while the attribution to Palestinian Islamic Jihad was kept.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 332040169):
A monument commemorating the victims of the Beit Lid massacre at the junction. The HaSharon Junction ( Template:Lang-he ), commonly known as Beit Lid Junction ( Template:Lang-he ), is an important road junction in the Sharon region of Israel. It intersects Highway 4 and Highway 57 . The junction serves as a large transportation hub for dozens of Egged and Nativ Express buses. On the southwest corner of the junction is Ashmoret Prison , a civilian jail. The junction was the scene of the Beit Lid massacre , a 1995 suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad .
2025 (revision 1254655544):
A monument commemorating the victims of the Beit Lid suicide bombing at the junction The HaSharon Junction ( Hebrew : צומת השרון ), commonly known as Beit Lid Junction ( Hebrew : צומת בית ליד ), is a key road junction in the Sharon region of Israel. It intersects Highway 4 and Highway 57 . The junction serves as a large transportation hub for dozens of Egged and Kavim buses. On the southwest corner of the junction is Ashmoret Prison , a civilian jail. The junction was the scene of the Beit Lid suicide bombing , a 1995 attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad . It is planned that in the future, a large interchange will replace the current intersection. It will be located slightly north of the exis…
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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