Wikipedia's first sentence called it “jerusalem -based english language israeli open source military intelligence website with commentary and analyse”. Today it says “privately operated israeli website based in jerusalem”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli military intelligence website”. It now reads “Privately operated Israeli website”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
DEBKAfile ( ) is an Jerusalem -based English language Israeli open source military intelligence website with commentary and analyses on terrorism , intelligence , security , and military and political affairs in the Middle East .1The word "Debka" refers to an Arab folk dance.2The site started in the summer of 2000, and is operated from the Jerusalem home of veteran journalists Giora Shamis and Diane Shalem. It has been awarded Forbes ' Best of the Web award. Yediot Achronot investigative reporter Ronen Bergman states that the site relies on information from sources with an agenda, such as neo-conservative elements of the US Republican Party , "whose worldview is that the situation is bad and is only going to get worse," and that Israeli intelligence officials do not consider even 10 percent of the site's content to be reliable. The site's operators, in contrast, state that 80 percent of what Debka reports turns out to be true, and point to its year 2000 prediction that al-Qaeda would again strike the World Trade Center , and that it had warned well before the 2006 war in Lebanon that Hezbollah had amassed 12,000 Katyusha rockets pointed at northern Israel.3
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The opening as it stood in 2015 5 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
DEBKAfile ( ) is an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem , providing commentary and analyses on terrorism , intelligence , national security , military and international relations , with a particular focus on the Middle East .It is available in both English and Hebrew . The word " Debka " refers to an Arab folk dance.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile ( ) was an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem , providing commentary and analyses on terrorism , intelligence , national security , military and international relations , with a particular focus on the Middle East . It was available in both English and Hebrew .The word "debka" refers to the Arab folk dance dabke .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Privately operated Israeli website DEBKAfile ( Hebrew : תיק דבקה ) was a privately operated Israeli website based in Jerusalem , providing commentary and analyses on terrorism , intelligence , national security , military and international relations , with a particular focus on the Middle East . It was available in both English and Hebrew . DEBKAfile operated for over 20 years.The site is inactive since 24 Jule 2023, after founder died, but still online. The word "debka" refers to the Arab folk dance dabke .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “jerusalem -based english language israeli open source military intelligence website with commentary and analyse”. Today it says “privately operated israeli website based in jerusalem”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Israeli military intelligence website”. It now reads “Privately operated Israeli website”. Read the current article and compare.
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jerusalem -based english language israeli open source military intelligence website with commentary and analyse
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privately operated israeli website based in jerusalem
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