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Shaul Mofaz: what Wikipedia removed

IDF Chief of Staff through the Second Intifada, later Defense Minister. The 2005 article described his tactics as a “firm response against terror”; the word now appears 0 times anywhere in the biography.

The word “terror” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. 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

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terror3000000
jihad1000000
martyr1000000

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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  • The Israeli public’s view of the operations as a response to terror, removed. The international criticism stayed.
  • The opening line was replaced as his career moved on.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 15925827):

Israeli Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz Shaul Mofaz (b. 1948 ) is the Israeli Minister of Defence and was the 16th Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces , particularly noted as the second Israeli of Jewish - Iranian origins (see Mizrahi Jews ) to achieve that post. The first was David Elazar . Mofaz has the unique distinction of serving under three different Israeli Prime Ministers, having been appointed as Chief of Staff by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (1996-1999) in 1998 , then served under Prime Minister Ehud Barak (1999-2001), and was then appointed as Minister of Defense in 2002 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2001- ) who has complete faith in his abilities to ma…

2026 (revision 1356989192):

Israeli politician and military officer Shaul Mofaz ( Hebrew : שאול מופז ‎; 4 November 1948) is a retired Israeli military officer and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade . He fought in the Six-Day War , Yom Kippur War , 1982 Lebanon War , and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal , an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the IDF’s sixteenth Chief of staff, serving until 2002. He is of Iranian Jewish ancestry. After leaving the army, he entered politics. He was appointed Minister of Defense in 2002, holding the position until 2006, when he was elected to the Knesset on the Kadima list. He then served as D…

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