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Herut was Menachem Begin’s conservative nationalist party, the direct predecessor of Likud. Through 2020 the opening said the party’s “existence was opposed by various notable Jewish figures as ‘fascist’ and ‘terrorist’ party.” Today the opening carries neither word, though terror survives once in the body. A reader today learns Herut was a Revisionist Zionist party that merged into Likud, and not that prominent Jewish figures once publicly denounced it as terrorist.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. 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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What was taken out

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  • The description of Herut being opposed by Jewish figures as a ‘fascist’ and ‘terrorist’ party is gone from the opening, though the word survives once in the body.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16812810):

This article is about the Zionist movement known as Herut. Herut is also the name of an early egyptian god also spelt Herrut Herut ( Hebrew : חרות - Freedom) was the political party of the Revisionist Zionist movement in Israel . It was conservative and nationalistic and became the main opposition to the Israeli Labour Party . Herut was led from its inception in 1948 by Menachem Begin and after 1983 by Yitzhak Shamir . In 1965 , Herut joined with the Liberal Party of Israel to form the Gahal bloc though it retained its own organization within the new party and dominated the new formation. In 1973 , Gahal merged with other right wing parties to form Likud , but again, Herut maintained a domin…

2025 (revision 1296325003):

This article is about the political party. For other uses, see Herut (disambiguation) . Herut MKs Uri Zvi Greenberg , Esther Raziel Naor , and Menachem Begin , at the first meeting of the Knesset in Jerusalem Herut ( Hebrew : חֵרוּת , lit. ’ Freedom ’ ) was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism . ^ Horowitz, Dan; Lissak, Moshe (1 February 2012). Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel . SUNY Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-4384-0708-1 .

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