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Aryeh Kasher

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “emeritus professor at tel aviv university and a winner of the bialik prize”. Today it says “israeli academic and writer”.
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Aryeh Kasher ( Hebrew : אריה כשר) (born 1935 - October 26, 2011) was an Israeli academic and writer.1 He was a professor at Tel Aviv University and winner of the 1990 Bialik Prize for Hebrew literature.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “emeritus professor at tel aviv university and a winner of the bialik prize”. Today it says “israeli academic and writer”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

emeritus professor at tel aviv university and a winner of the bialik prize

Now

israeli academic and writer

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