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Kehat Shorr: what Wikipedia removed

Kehat Shorr was the shooting coach for Israel’s 1972 Olympic team, one of eleven Israeli athletes killed in the Munich massacre. Through 2010 the opening said he was among the members of Israel’s Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Black September operatives. Today the opening says only that he was “killed in the Munich massacre,” with hostage appearing 0 times in the opening though it survives 5 times in the body. A reader today learns he was killed in a massacre and not that he was taken hostage and murdered by a named terrorist organization.

The word “hostage” appeared 7 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.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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hostage72000
terror20011
massacre01112

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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  • A caption noting Shorr and Andre Spitzer spoke to German officials during the hostage crisis, gone with the passage it captioned.
  • An earlier birth-death line, reworded without changing the underlying fact of his death at Munich.
  • The statement that he and other athletes were taken hostage and murdered by Black September is gone from the opening.
  • The detail that terrorists were seen training guns on Shorr and a fellow coach in their besieged building is gone from the article.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 337217086):

Israeli hostages Kehat Shorr (left) and Andre Spitzer (right) talk to German officials during the hostage crisis. Kehat Shorr ( 1919 - September 6, 1972) was the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Black September operatives at the 1972 Summer Olympics . He was seen once during the hostage crisis, standing next to fellow coach Andre Spitzer at a second-floor window of their besieged building while terrorists trained guns on the pair. Kehat Shorr was born in Romania . There, he devoted himself to the sport of shooting and became an expert shooter. He moved to Israel in 1963 …

2025 (revision 1288932373):

Israeli coach and Munich Massacre victim Kehat Shorr ( Hebrew : קהת שור ; 21 February 1919 – 6 September 1972) was the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team killed in the Munich massacre . ^ Sanchez, Juan (7 August 2007). Terrorism & It’s Effects . Global Media. ISBN 9788189940935 . Archived from the original on 4 July 2014 . Retrieved 15 October 2016 .

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