Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing: what Wikipedia removed
The opening once opened “also called the Sbarro massacre”: 15 murdered, 7 of them children. The alternate name is gone from the opening; massacre survives once, in the body.
The word “massacre” appeared 4 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 1. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| massacre | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 alternate name and the designation left in one cut: fifteen murdered, seven of them children, now introduced without massacre or terrorist.
- The word massacre left this sentence too, along with the description of the restaurant that was bombed.
Who made the cuts
Section titled “Who made the cuts”Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:
- 2024-03-26, Dreameditsbrooklyn, edit summary: “improved lede” (see the diff)
- 2020-08-17, Hmains, edit summary: “Moving from [[Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in Israel]] to [[Category:Building bombings in Israel]] using” (see the diff)
- 2009-05-26, Gilabrand, edit summary: “rearrange in sections conforming to style in other suicide bombing articles” (see the diff)
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17800649):
The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing took place on August 9 2001 in Jerusalem , Israel . At the time of the massacre, the Jerusalem branch of the Sbarro pizza restaurant chain was located at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel. Just before 2:00 p.m. on a summer holiday afternoon, when the restaurant was filled with customers and pedestrian traffic outside was at its peak, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt weighing 5 to 10 kilograms, containing explosives, nails, nuts and bolts, detonated his bomb. In the blast 15 people (including 7 children) were killed, and 130 wounded. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in…
2026 (revision 1357157225):
2001 Palestinian attack in West Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bombing at a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem on 9 August 2001 killed 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman. A further 130 were wounded. The attack occurred during the Second Intifada .
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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