Wikipedia's first sentence called it “left-wing israeli journalist and critic”. Today it says “invoked but never defined”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Biography”.
Found by software in Wikipedia's own edit history. Not yet read by hand. The quoted words are Wikipedia's.
Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2015 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2015
Boaz Evron ( , 1927- ) is a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic.1Evron was born in Jerusalem and attended Herzliya Hebrew High School and Hebrew University . Evron's family had lived in Palestine since the early nineteenth century; he is the great-grandson of Yoel Moshe Salomon , one of the founders of Petah Tikva . He was a member of Lehi and the Canaanite movement early in his life and remains critical of Zionism and supportive of some of Canaanism's tenets. In 1956 he co-founded the political group Semitic Action . His writings appeared in Semitic Action's journal Etgar and in Tzipor HaNefesh , a paper edited by Amos Kenan and Dahn Ben-Amotz . At Yediot , Evron wrote a column which appeared on the same page as Kenan's; their page in the paper was given the satirical nickname " Fatahland " in reference to their perceived sympathy for the Palestinians. He also translated books by Bertrand Russell and Edith Nesbit into Hebrew. Evron was the director of the Beit Zvi theater school from 1970 until 1979. He is on the editorial board of the Palestine-Israel Journal .2 The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 656380340.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Boaz Evron ( , 1927- ) is a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic. Evron was born in Jerusalem and attended Herzliya Hebrew High School and Hebrew University . Evron's family had lived in Palestine since the early nineteenth century; he is the great-grandson of Yoel Moshe Salomon , one of the founders of Petah Tikva . He was a member of Lehi and the Canaanite movement early in his life and remains critical of Zionism and supportive of some of Canaanism's tenets. In 1956 he co-founded the political group Semitic Action . His writings appeared in Semitic Action's journal Etgar and in Tzipor HaNefesh , a paper edited by Amos Kenan and Dahn Ben-Amotz . At Yediot , Evron wrote a column which appeared on the same page as Kenan's; their page in the paper was given the satirical nickname " Fatahland " in reference to their perceived sympathy for the Palestinians. He also translated books by Bertrand Russell and Edith Nesbit into Hebrew. Evron was the director of the Beit Zvi theater school from 1970 until 1979. He is on the editorial board of the Palestine-Israel Journal . The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 356488372.
The opening as it stood in 2020 9 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Boaz Evron ( , June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018), alternatively transliterated Boas Evron was a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic.Norman Finkelstein transcribes Evron's name as such in Finkelstein, Norman (2003).The Holocaust Industry (Second paperback ed.). The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 948784397.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli journalist (1927–2018) Boaz Evron ( , June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018), alternatively transliterated Boas Evron was a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic. Norman Finkelstein transcribes Evron's name as such in Finkelstein, Norman (2003). The Holocaust Industry (Second paperback ed.). The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1160421928.
The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli journalist (1927–2018) Boaz Evron ( Hebrew : בועז עברון ; June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018), alternatively transliterated Boas Evron was a left-wing Israeli journalist and critic. Norman Finkelstein transcribes Evron's name as such in Finkelstein, Norman (2003). The Holocaust Industry (Second paperback ed.). The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1288816717. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “left-wing israeli journalist and critic”. Today it says “invoked but never defined”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Biography”. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
left-wing israeli journalist and critic
Now
invoked but never defined
Sections that no longer exist
This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 1 section of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 2 characters shorter.
Biography
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.