Tzrifin Underground: what Wikipedia removed
The Tzrifin Underground, also called the Kingdom of Israel, was a Jewish group in 1950s Israel that bombed Soviet and Czechoslovak diplomatic missions and tried to assassinate West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer with letter bombs. The 2015 opening called it “a Jewish terrorist group active in Israel in the 1950s.” Today the opening calls it “an underground Jewish militant group”; terror survives six times in the body. A reader today learns what the group did but not that Wikipedia’s own opening once called it a terrorist group outright.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 6. 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 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| militant | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| antisemitism | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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 description of the group as a ‘Jewish terrorist group,’ downgraded to ‘militant group’ in the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2015 (revision 654279003):
Members of the group posing with prison personnel after being released from prison in 1955. The group’s leader, Yaakov Heruti , is second from left. The Kingdom of Israel ( Template:Lang-he , Malchut Yisrael ), or Tzrifin Underground , was a Jewish terrorist group active in Israel in the 1950s. “Kingdom of Israel” was the name that the group’s members used, but it was better known to the Israeli public as the “Tzrifin Underground”, after the Tzrifin military base, where its members were put on trial. The group carried out attacks on the diplomatic missions of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in protest against those countries’ antisemitic policies, such as the Slánský trial and the Doctor…
2025 (revision 1297791488):
Underground Jewish militant group Members of the group posing with prison personnel after being released from prison in 1955. The group’s leader, Yaakov Heruti , is second from left. The Tzrifin Underground , officially the Kingdom of Israel ( Hebrew : מלכות ישראל , Malchut Yisrael ), was an underground Jewish militant group active in Israel in the 1950s. “Kingdom of Israel” was the name that the group’s members used, but it was better known to the Israeli public as the “Tzrifin Underground”, after the Tzrifin military base, where its members were put on trial. The group carried out attacks on the diplomatic missions of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in protest against those countries’ …
Related
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