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Abdallah Jaber

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reine”. Today it says “professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reineh”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Palestinian association footballer”. It now reads “Footballer (born 1993)”.
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Abdallah Jaber ( Arabic : عَبْد الله جَابِر , Hebrew : עבדאללה ג'אבר ; born 17 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Bnei Reineh . Born in Israel, he represented the Palestine national team . He played for and captained the Palestine national team until he was banned from it due to him playing for an Israeli Premier League club in 2020. He is the youngest Palestinian footballer to amass 35 international caps , having started 35 of Palestine's 40 games between May 2014 and August 2018.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reine”. Today it says “professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reineh”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Palestinian association footballer”. It now reads “Footballer (born 1993)”. Read the current article and compare.
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palestinian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reine

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professional footballer who plays as a left-back for israeli premier league club maccabi bnei reineh

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