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Sylvia Raphael was the South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of murder in Norway’s 1973 Lillehammer affair. Through 2015 the opening said that when Israel decided to track down the Munich terrorists she provided valuable intelligence which led to the killing of three, before being assigned to an Operation Wrath of God team herself. Today the opening makes no mention of the Munich terrorists or Operation Wrath of God, and the word appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns of her conviction in the Lillehammer affair and not that she was part of Israel’s operation hunting the perpetrators of the Munich massacre.

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

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What was taken out

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  • The account of Raphael’s intelligence work in Israel’s hunt for the Munich massacre perpetrators, dropped from the opening entirely.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 357152957):

Sylvia Rafael Schjødt (born April 1, 1937, South Africa — died February 9, 2005, Pretoria, South Africa ) was a South African-born Israeli Mossad operative . Born near Cape Town in 1937, she was the daughter of a Jewish father. Although her mother was not Jewish, Rafael immigrated to Israel in 1963, where she lived on a kibbutz , later working as a teacher. She later moved to Tel Aviv , where she was recruited by Mossad . After training she attained the highest rank for a Mossad agent — “combattant”, qualified to operate in hostile countries. She was sent to Paris in the guise of a freelance journalist with a Canadian passport in the name of real life Canadian photojournalist Patricia Roxbur…

2025 (revision 1289313779):

South African–Israeli spy (1937 – 2005) Sylvia Raphael Schjødt (born 1 April 1937 – 9 February 2005) was a South African -born Israeli Mossad agent, convicted of murder for her involvement in the Lillehammer affair in Norway. ^ Norwegian Official Report 2000: 6 ( Summary )

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