Shoreshthe drift report · all case files
Case file

Eliyahu Golomb

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “zionist activist”. Today it says “the "unofficial founder" of the haganah”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the October 6, 2023 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since. Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now. 1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in October 6, 2023

Born in Volkovysk , Belarus . After emigrating to Palestine he joined Hashomer , an underground Zionist militia, in 1916. He became one of the leaders of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine and chief architect of the Haganah , the underground military organization for defense of the Yishuv between 1920 and 1948. His son David later served as a member of the Knesset . The complete guide to Israeli postage stamps from 1948 onward .1

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1178855950.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “zionist activist”. Today it says “the "unofficial founder" of the haganah”. Read the current article and compare.
20152020Oct '232025
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 October 7, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

zionist activist

Now

the "unofficial founder" of the haganah

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.

← back to the drift report