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Mordechai Maklef: what Wikipedia removed

Mordechai Maklef, later the third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, survived the 1929 Arab Uprising by escaping an attack that killed the rest of his family at their home in Motza. Through 2005 the opening said he “managed to escape the massacre by jumping from a second story window.” Today’s opening carries no mention of the attack at all, though massacre survives three times in the body. A reader arriving now learns his military and corporate career and not that he escaped the massacre of his own family as a child.

The word “massacre” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. 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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  • His birth and death years were reformatted without changing the underlying fact.
  • The account of his family’s murder in the 1929 Arab attacks and his escape from the massacre is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16962752):

Mordechai (Motke) Maklef ( 1920 - 1978 ) was the third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and later, director-general of many important public companies in the Israeli economy . Maklef was born in the village of Motza in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1920. His parents were among the founders of the village, located along the road leading to Jerusalem . During the Arab Uprising of 1929 , inhabitants of the neighboring Arab village of Kolonia attacked the Maklef home, which was located along the perimeter of Motza, and killed the entire family, except the young Mordechai, who managed to escape the massacre by jumping from a second story window. The murderers included a she…

2025 (revision 1291108328):

Israeli general ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Mordechai ( Motke ) Maklef (or Makleff ) ( Hebrew : מרדכי (מותקה) מקלף ; 19 January 1920 – 22 February 1978) was the third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and later, director-general of many important public companies in the Israeli economy .

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