Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli social scientist and political activist who was accused of spying for syria”. Today it says “israeli political scientist”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Controversy”.
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Ehud 'Udi' Adiv ( ) is an Israeli social scientist and political activist who was accused of spying for Syria. Adiv was born in 1946 and raised in a kibbutz named Gan Shmuel in Israel . He was the son of one of the kibbutz founders. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was a political activist. He belonged to the far left of the Israeli political spectrum. After a trip to Damascus where he met members of the PLO he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for spying and membership in a hostile organization. After 12 years, in 1985, he was released. Today Adiv works for the Open University of Israel .1
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June 21, 1946 - ) is an Israeli political scienctist and lecturer at the Open University of Israel .In his youth, he was a left-wing anti-Zionist activist who was eventually convicted of treason and membership in a hostile organization and who served over a decade in prison."Exposure of a Jewish-Arab Espionage and Terror Network (1972)" . : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= ( help )
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Ehud "Udi" Adiv ( ) (born June 21, 1946) is an Israeli political scientist and lecturer at the Open University of Israel . In his youth, he was a left-wing anti-Zionist activist who was eventually convicted of treason and membership in a hostile organization and who served over a decade in prison. "Exposure of a Jewish-Arab Espionage and Terror Network (1972)" . : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= ( help )
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Israeli political scientist and lecturer (born 1946) Ehud " Udi " Adiv ( ) (born June 21, 1946) is an Israeli political scientist and was a lecturer at the Open University of Israel . In his youth, he was a left-wing anti-Zionist activist who was eventually convicted of treason and membership in a hostile organization and who served over a decade in prison .
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Israeli political scientist and lecturer (born 1946) Ehud " Udi " Adiv ( Hebrew : אהוד "אודי" אדיב ; born June 21, 1946) is an Israeli political scientist. He was a lecturer at the Open University of Israel . In his youth, he was a left-wing anti-Zionist activist (a member of Ma'avak ) who was eventually convicted of treason and membership in a hostile organization, serving over a decade in prison .
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israeli social scientist and political activist who was accused of spying for syria
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israeli political scientist
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