Immanuel (Israeli settlement): what Wikipedia removed

Immanuel is a West Bank settlement where, in 2002, a bus was bombed, killing nine people. Through 2010 the opening said “In 2002, the town was the site of a terrorist attack on civilians, which claimed nine lives.” Today’s opening describes only the settlement’s founding, population and legal status under international law; terror survives 5 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that a terrorist attack killed nine civilians in Immanuel in 2002.

The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 5. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/immanuel-israeli-settlement.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2010	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
terror	2	0	0	0	0

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

What was taken out

• The opening’s original description of the settlement’s location and alternate spelling, later reworded.
• A population figure sourced to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, dropped from the opening.
• The settlement’s land area figure, reworded rather than removed.
• The sentence naming the 2002 terrorist attack and its nine deaths, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

2010 (revision 370087559):

For other uses, see Emanuel . Template:Infobox Israel municipality Playground in an Immanuel central roundabout Immanuel ( Template:Lang-he-n ) (widely spelled Emmanuel ) is an Israeli settlement and a town with local council status in the northern West Bank . According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Immanuel had a population of 2,800 at the end of 2007, mostly Haredi Orthodox Jews . Its jurisdiction is 2,750 dunams (2.75 km²). Immanuel was declared a local council in 1985. Its first head of council was Oded Alon. Immanuel’s current head of council is Yeshayahu Ehrenreich. In the 1990s, Immanuel was undergoing a major expansion, but the Oslo Accords discouraged investors a…

2025 (revision 1290999228):

Israeli settlement in the West Bank Local council in West Bank Playground in an Immanuel central roundabout Immanuel , ( Hebrew : עִמָּנוּאֵל , IPA : i.maˌnuˈel) also spelled Emmanuel or Emanuel , is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council located in the West Bank . Immanuel was established in 1983. In 2024 it had a population of 5,675; its jurisdiction is spread out over 2,750 dunams (2.75 km ). The international community considers Immanuel along with all other Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law , but the Israeli government disputes this. ^ “Regional Statistics” . Israel Central Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 21 March 2026 . ^ One kid in Imman…

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