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Temple Mount Faithful: what Wikipedia removed

The Temple Mount Faithful is an extremist Orthodox Jewish movement based in Jerusalem seeking to rebuild the Third Temple. The opening once reported that “On October 8, 1990, 22 Palestinians were killed and over 100 others injured by Israeli Border Police in the Al Aqsa Massacre during riots that were triggered by an announcement by the Temple Mount Faithful.” The word is nowhere in the article today, and the passage describing the 1990 killings is gone. A reader today does not learn that 22 Palestinians were killed by Israeli Border Police in riots triggered by a Temple Mount Faithful announcement.

The word “massacre” 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 organization’s name was reworded from a transliterated Hebrew-and-English form to the current bilingual rendering, without changing its meaning.
  • The account of the 1990 Al Aqsa Massacre, in which Israeli Border Police killed 22 Palestinians during riots the group’s announcement triggered, is gone.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 15959924):

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement (or Temple Mount Faithful ) was founded by Gershon Salomon, a former officer in the Israel Defence Forces who lectures on Middle Eastern studies. The group seeks the removal of two Islamic holy places from the Temple Mount as the first step in the rebuilding of a Jewish Temple there and the reinstitution of the ancient Jewish sacrificial rite. Their aim is supported only by a small minority of the Israeli public. Numerous times, in particular during the Al-Aqsa Intifada , the Temple Mount Faithful were forbidden to ascend on the Temple Mount out of fear of leading to clashes with the Muslim Arabs on the site. In these cases, the Faithful …

2025 (revision 1297206630):

Jerusalem-based Orthodox Jewish movement The Temple Mount and Israel Faithful Movement ( Hebrew : נאמני הר הבית וארץ ישראל ), more commonly known simply as the Temple Mount Faithful ( נאמני הר הבית ), is an extremist Orthodox Jewish movement, based in Jerusalem , whose goal is to rebuild the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and re-institute the practice of ritual sacrifice . ^ “The Status of Jerusalem” (PDF) . United Nations . 1997.

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