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Ashdod Sand Dune

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “psammosere ecosystem located close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean se”. Today it says “psammosere ecosystem close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean sea”.
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Ashdod Nitzanim Sand Dune Park is a psammosere ecosystem located close to the city of Ashdod on the Israeli Coastal Plain near the Mediterranean sea.1 It is located south of Tel Aviv and represents the landscape on which most of modern-day Israel was constructed on by pioneers following various Aliyah 's and the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “psammosere ecosystem located close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean se”. Today it says “psammosere ecosystem close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean sea”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

psammosere ecosystem located close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean se

Now

psammosere ecosystem close to the city of ashdod on the israeli coastal plain near the mediterranean sea

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