Yisrael Ariel: what Wikipedia removed
Yisrael Ariel was an Israeli rabbi, founder of the Temple Institute, and chief rabbi of the evacuated Sinai settlement of Yamit. Through 2020 the opening said he described Jewish religious terrorism suspects who were banned from entering the West Bank due to vandalism as praiseworthy. Today the opening says nothing of it, though the fact survives four times in the body. A reader arriving now does not learn that this rabbi praised suspects banned for religious terrorism.
The word “terror” appeared 2 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 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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”- A sentence stating that Ariel praised Jewish religious terrorism suspects banned from the West Bank for vandalism, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 353400415):
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was the chief rabbi of the evacuated Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai desert during the years when the Sinai was controlled by Israel. His brother, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel , served as the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva in Yamit and is currently the chief rabbi of the city of Ramat Gan. Rabbi Ariel is the founder of the Temple Institute ( Machon HaMikdash ). As a young man, he served in the paratroop unit that liberated the Western Wall ( kotel ) in the Six-Day War . For the 1981 Knesset elections, Rabbi Ariel ran as number 2 on the Kach list with Rabbi Meir Kahane as the leader and number 1. Kach was a religious and nationalist Jewish group originally led by Rabbi Kahane …
2025 (revision 1294822698):
Israeli rabbi (born 1939) Rabbi Yisrael Ariel ( Hebrew : ישראל אריאל ; born Yisrael Stieglitz 15 August 1939) was the chief rabbi of the evacuated Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula during the years when the Sinai was controlled by Israel, and the founder of the Temple Institute ( Machon HaMikdash ). His brother, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel , served as the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva in Yamit and later became the chief rabbi of Ramat Gan . ^ Steven Fine, The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. p. 211 ^ Motti Inbari (2010). “Messianic Movements and Failed Prophecies in Israel: Five Case Studies” (PDF) . Nova Religio: The Journal of …
Related
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