Uri Blau: what Wikipedia removed
An Israeli investigative journalist whose most notable Haaretz story exposed an IDF targeted killing. The 2010 opening said his story reported that “the targeted killing of one of two Islamic Jihad militants killed in Jenin in June 2007 had violated a prior ruling of the Supreme Court of Israel.” Today the opening drops that story entirely, describing Blau only through his later conviction for possessing classified IDF documents, though the word survives once in the article. A reader arriving now learns of his conviction and not of the investigative story that made him notable.
The word “militant” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| militant | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| jihad | 1 | 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 description of Blau as an Israeli writer and journalist, reworded rather than removed.
- The account of Blau’s Haaretz story on the targeted killing of an Islamic Jihad militant that violated an Israeli Supreme Court ruling, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 366681044):
Uri Blau ( Template:Lang-he , born 1977) is an Israeli writer and journalist and currently an investigative reporter for the Haaretz newspaper, specializing in military affairs. In November 2008, Blau published a story in Haaretz saying that the targeted killing of one of two Islamic Jihad militants killed in Jenin in June 2007 had violated a prior ruling of the Supreme Court of Israel . The ruling had “heavily restricted the circumstances in which they were permissible, effectively saying that killing should not take place if arrest was possible.” Surprisingly, the IDF military censor approved this report despite the fact that it reproduced two top secret IDF memos indicating that the IDF h…
2025 (revision 1296687215):
Israeli investigative journalist (born 1977) Blau in 2018 Uri Blau ( Hebrew : אורי בלאו ; born 1977) is an Israeli investigative journalist who writes for Haaretz and other publications. His work focuses on military affairs, corruption and “follow the money” investigations. Blau was convicted of possession of classified IDF documents and sentenced to community service for his role in the Kamm-Blau affair .
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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