Rafael Ben-Ari: what Wikipedia removed
Rafael Ben-Ari is an Israeli photojournalist whose most prominent images documented Qassam rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel during the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict. Through 2010 the opening said he “is known for his war and conflict photography, with his most prominent pictures from terror attacks from Palestinian Qassam rockets on civilians in southern Israel.” The word is gone from the article entirely today, and the opening instead describes his work only as documenting “the war and conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the Muslim Arab world.” A reader today does not learn that his most prominent photography specifically documented terror attacks by Qassam rockets on Israeli civilians.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 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
Section titled “What was taken out”- The earlier description of him as an ‘Israeli-born photojournalist’ survives today only in a broadened form, as a ‘Jewish Israeli-born multinational documentary photography travel photographer and camera operator.’
- The description of his most prominent pictures as documenting terror attacks from Palestinian Qassam rockets on Israeli civilians is gone from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 359789452):
Rafael Ben-Ari (Hebrew: רפאל בן-ארי b. 1971) is an Israeli -born photojournalist and photographer. He is known for his war and conflict photography, with his most prominent pictures from terror attacks from Palestinian Qassam rockets on civilians in southern Israel during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict . Rafael Ben-Ari has shown his photography in personal and collective exhibitions worldwide, including Australia , New Zealand and France . His work has appeared in a number of magazines, books, newspapers and online around the world.
2025 (revision 1298139913):
Israeli photographer (born 1971) Rafael Ben-Ari ( Hebrew : רפאל בן-ארי ; born 1971) is a Jewish Israeli -born multinational documentary photography travel photographer and camera operator . Rafael is known for his on location travel photography from around the world and for his war photography when he was working in photojournalism as a photojournalist and war photographer documenting the war and conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the Muslim Arab world from 2004 till 2012. In 2019 he was named one of the top 10 Best Stock Photographers in the world by Pouted Magazine. Rafael’s photography work is well recognized and his images appears in a large number of publications, magazines …
Related
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- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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