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Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli author”. Today it says “israeli author and a kahana-carmon | jewish women's archive"”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli writer and literary critic (1926–2019)”. It now reads “Israeli writer and )”.
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon ( Hebrew : עמליה כהנא-כרמון) (born 1926) is an Israeli author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize for literature (2000).1 Kahana was born at Kibbutz Ein Harod . Her father, Haim Kahana, was one of the founders of the kibbutz. She moved to Tel Aviv , where she studied at the Herzliya secondary school. During the Israeli War of Independence she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat . She received a master's degree in literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964.2

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli author”. Today it says “israeli author and a kahana-carmon | jewish women's archive"”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli writer and literary critic (1926–2019)”. It now reads “Israeli writer and )”. Read the current article and compare.
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