Yishai Schlissel: what Wikipedia removed
Yishai Schlissel was twice convicted of stabbing attacks at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, killing 16-year-old Shira Banki in 2015. In 2020 the opening said flatly: “Yishai Schlissel… is an Israeli terrorist.” Today the opening calls him “a convicted Israeli murderer”; the word terror survives four times elsewhere in the article, not the opening. A reader today does not learn that the article once flatly called him a terrorist, only that he was convicted of murder.
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. 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 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 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 direct statement that he is an Israeli terrorist, replaced with convicted murderer.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2020 (revision 964895354):
Yishai Schlissel (also spelled Shlisel ; Template:Lang-he-n ; born 10 December 1975) is an Israeli terrorist. He stabbed marchers during the Jerusalem gay pride parade in 2005, for which he served ten years in prison. On 30 July 2015, during the 2015 Jerusalem gay pride, he stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to death, and wounded six other people. The incident occurred just three weeks after his release from prison. On 24 August, Schlissel was indicted for murder, six counts of attempted murder, and wounding under aggravating circumstances, and detained until the end of proceedings. On June 26 2016, he was sentenced to life plus 31 years in prison, as well as a fine of NIS 2,064,000 (around $65…
2025 (revision 1286477151):
Israeli murder convict (born 1975) Yishai Schlissel (also spelled Shlisel ; Hebrew : ישי שליסל ; born 10 December 1975) is a convicted Israeli murderer. He stabbed marchers during the Jerusalem gay pride parade in 2005, for which he served ten years in prison. On 30 July 2015, during the 2015 Jerusalem gay pride, he stabbed 16-year-old Shira Banki to death and wounded five other people. The incident occurred just three weeks after his release from prison. On 24 August, Schlissel was indicted for murder, five counts of attempted murder, and wounding under aggravating circumstances, and detained until the end of proceedings. On 26 June 2016, he was sentenced to life plus 31 years in prison, as…
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