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Yosef Dayan is a self-proclaimed monarchist who claims to be the senior heir to the Davidic line. Through 2020 the opening stated that he was known to have supported Baruch Goldstein’s terrorist actions in the Cave of the Patriarch’s massacre, the 1994 mass shooting of Palestinian worshippers by a fellow Meir Kahane disciple. Today the opening carries no mention of Goldstein or terrorism at all, and the word terrorist appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns nothing of Dayan’s documented support for Goldstein’s massacre of worshippers at prayer.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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

What was taken out

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  • The description of him as author of an unnamed work, dropped along with the older opening wording.
  • The fact that he emigrated to Israel in 1968 and the group he joined afterward, dropped from the opening.
  • The specific sourcing that Jewish genealogists consider him a patrilineal descendant of King David, dropped in favor of an unsourced claim that he is the senior heir to the Davidic line.
  • The statement that Dayan supported Baruch Goldstein’s terrorist actions at the Cave of the Patriarchs, removed entirely; the word terrorist no longer appears anywhere in the article.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 348726940):

Yosef Dayan (born Mexico in 1945 ) is a rabbi and the author of several books in Hebrew , Spanish and Italian . He also worked to translate modern Spanish literature into Hebrew. Yosef Dayan emigrated to Israel in 1968 and became a member of the right wing Kach movement . Some Jewish genealogists consider him to be a patrilinear descendant of King David and thus a “prince” or Nassi of the ancient Davidic royal line. Yosef Dayan is the founder of “Malchut Israel”, a right wing royalist political group in Israel advocating a return of the monarchy. In 2004 he became a member of the newly reconstituted Sanhedrin , a duplicate of the religious tribunal which convened during the time of the Secon…

2025 (revision 1294811822):

Mexican-Israeli Orthodox rabbi Yosef Dayan ( Hebrew : יוסף דיין ; born 1945) is a Mexican - Israeli Orthodox rabbi , author and right-wing Israeli monarchist and nationalist, who claims to be the most senior heir to the Davidic line . He is the founder and director of Malchut Israel, a religious right-wing political party which advocates for a monarchy in Israel. In 2004, Dayan became a founding member of the newly reconstituted Sanhedrin .

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