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Avi Benjamin

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “performing on stage at his show "live soundtracks for movies that don't yet exist" at tel aviv museum of art”. Today it says “israeli composer and performer”.
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The opening as it read in 2015

Avi Benjamin ( ; Russian: Ави Беньямин ; born March 3, 1959) is an Estonian, Russian, and Israeli composer and performer, musical director of the Israeli Gesher Theater since its foundation in 1991.1 [1] Selected clips from the performance "Live Soundtracks for Movies That Don't Yet Exist" on Avi-Channel, YouTube

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “performing on stage at his show "live soundtracks for movies that don't yet exist" at tel aviv museum of art”. Today it says “israeli composer and performer”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

performing on stage at his show "live soundtracks for movies that don't yet exist" at tel aviv museum of art

Now

israeli composer and performer

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