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Yad Natan: what Wikipedia removed

Yad Natan is an Israeli moshav named for Ottó Komoly, a Zionist leader in Hungary. Through 2015 the opening said he “was murdered in 1945, apparently for anti-Semitic reasons.” Today the word antisemitism is nowhere in the article; the opening gives only the moshav’s location and population. A reader today does not learn that the man the settlement is named for was murdered for antisemitic reasons.

The word “antisemitism” 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.

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

  • The founder’s murder, attributed to antisemitism, dropped entirely along with the naming story.

2010 (revision 366780232):

Yad Natan ( Template:Lang-he-n , lit. Memorial for Natan) is a moshav in southern Israel in Hevel Lakhish , near the town of Kiryat Gat . It is part of the Lakhish Regional Council . The moshav was founded in 1953 by Jewish immigrants from Hungary as part of the effort to settle the region. It was named after Ottó Komoly (his Hebrew birth name was Natan Kohn) , a leader of the Zionist movement in Hungary, who was murdered in 1945, apparently for anti-Semitic reasons. v t e 31°39′21″N 34°42′15″E  /  31.65583°N 34.70417°E  / 31.65583; 34.70417

2025 (revision 1252354083):

Moshav in southern Israel Place in Southern, Israel Yad Natan ( Hebrew : יַד נָתָן , lit. Memorial for Natan) is a moshav in southern Israel in Hevel Lakhish , near the town of Kiryat Gat . It is part of the Lakhish Regional Council . In 2024 it had a population of 677. ^ “Regional Statistics” . Israel Central Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 21 March 2026 .

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