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Eliyahu Koren

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “master typographer and graphic artist”. Today it says “german-born israeli graphic designer and typographer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “German-born Israeli typographer”. It now reads “German–Israeli typographer (1907–2001)”.
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Eliyahu Koren ( Hebrew : אליהו קורן; ‎23 July 1907 – 17 February 2001) was a German-born Israeli typographer and graphic artist. After studying in Nuremberg , he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933. He served as head of the graphics department of Keren Kayemet, the Jewish National Fund , from 1936 to 1957. He founded Koren Publishers Jerusalem in 1961, which published the Koren Bible in 1962. He published the Koren Siddur in 1981, and various religious texts until his death.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “master typographer and graphic artist”. Today it says “german-born israeli graphic designer and typographer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “German-born Israeli typographer”. It now reads “German–Israeli typographer (1907–2001)”. Read the current article and compare.
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master typographer and graphic artist

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german-born israeli graphic designer and typographer

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