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Hatzor Airbase is an Israeli Air Force base near Ashdod that was previously an RAF airfield under the British Mandate. Through 2010 the opening said that on the night of 25 February 1946, “Irgun militants attacked the airbase and destroyed several parked RAF Halifax transports.” Today the opening carries no mention of that attack at all; the word survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the base has hosted Israeli fighter pilots and a joint US-Israel operations center, and not that Irgun fighters once attacked it and destroyed several British aircraft.

The word “militant” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. 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

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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 base’s description was reworded at some point to “military airbase,” a stylistic change from an earlier snapshot’s wording; today’s opening drops the word again.
  • The account of the 1946 Irgun attack that destroyed several RAF aircraft is gone from the opening, and a reader no longer learns the base was once attacked.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 365186328):

Hatzor Israeli Air Force Base ( ICAO : LLHS ), also titled Kanaf 4 ( lit. Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military airbase, located in central Israel , near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. The airfield was constructed by the Royal Air Force in 1945 , during the British Mandate of Palestine , as RAF Qastina after the nearby Palestinian village of the same name. On the night of 25 February 1946, Irgun militants attacked the airbase and destroyed several parked RAF Halifax transports. Two additional RAF airfields, RAF Lydda (Ben Gurion International Airport) and RAF Kfar Sirkin , were attacked in what became known as the “Night of the Airplanes”. Altogether, the attacks destroyed 20 RAF…

2025 (revision 1298160918):

Air base in Hatzor, Israel Israeli fighter pilot Amos Lapidot , later commander of the IAF , prepares for a mission in a Dassault Ouragan jet at Hatzor Airbase in July 1956. Hatzor Airbase ( Hebrew : בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר חָצוֹר ) ( ICAO : LLHS ), also titled Kanaf 4 ( lit. Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base, located in central Israel (but in the Southern District ) near kibbutz Hatzor Ashdod after which it is named. However, there have been no fighter jets stationed there since 2021, only patrol aircraft, UAVs and defense missiles. A Combined Operations Center for the US military and Israel has also been built there in 2021. ^ “Tribute to the fighter pilot: Farewell to former Air F…

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