Yitzhak Arad: what Wikipedia removed
Yitzhak Arad was Yad Vashem’s longtime director and a Soviet partisan during World War II. Through 2015 the opening said “it was revealed in the 2000s that he had served in the NKVD and from 2006, he was investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lithuania.” Today’s opening carries none of this, though war crime survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that Lithuania opened a war crimes investigation into Arad.
The word “war crime” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. 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 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| war crime | 0 | 0 | 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”- A rewording of his opening identification, no information lost.
- A reader no longer learns that Arad’s NKVD service and the Lithuanian war crimes investigation into him were revealed in the 2000s.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2005 (revision 17090353):
Yitzhak Arad is an Israeli historian. He lives in Tel Aviv . He has published many books related to the Holocaust . v t e
2025 (revision 1277421499):
Soviet-Israeli historian and military official (1926–2021) Yitzhak Arad ( Hebrew : יצחק ארד ; né Icchak Rudnicki ; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan . He also served as Yad Vashem ‘s director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust . ^ “Izhak Arad (Rudnicki) vital statistics at Jewish Partisans’ website” . Archived from the original on December 16, 2013 . Retrieved June 9, 2006 . ^ Berger, Joseph (May 15, 2021). “Yitzhak Arad, Who Led Holocaust Study Center in Israel, Dies at 94” . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved May 13, 2022 .
Related
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