Nitzan Alon: what Wikipedia removed
Nitzan Alon is an Israeli major general who commanded the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division and later Central Command. Through October 2023 the opening quoted him warning that Jewish ‘price tag’ attacks ‘amount to terrorism.’ Today the opening states only that he is a general who commanded Central Command starting in 2012, and the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that Alon, as division commander, publicly called Jewish extremist ‘price tag’ attacks terrorism.
The word “settler” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| settler | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- A caption identifying a 2011 photo of Alon, dropped from the opening.
- His academic background in physics and material engineering, dropped from the opening.
- His public statement that ‘price tag’ attacks by Jewish extremists amount to terrorism, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 354704536):
Brigadier General Nitzan Alon is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces , and the commander of Judah and Samaria division. Born in 1964 between 1984 and 1998 he was assigned to various positions in an IDF elite unit. In 1998 he was appointed as commander of the elite unit. In 2001 he began working as a research associate in Washington DC . In 2003 he was appointed as commander of the IDF Hitzey HaEsh (Fire Arrows) division and in 2005 he was appointed as commander of the Etzyon Regional Brigade in the IDF Central Command. In 2007 he was appointed as Head of the Israel Defense Intelligence Operations Division. Brig. Gen. Alon has a combined BSc in Physics and Material Engineering from Techni…
2025 (revision 1288801106):
Israeli general (b. 1964) Major General Nitzan Alon ( Hebrew : ניצן אלון ; born 26 February 1965) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces . In December 2011, he was named the General officer commanding Central Command and became Head of Central Command in early 2012.
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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