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Gat, Israel

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kibbutz near kiryat gat”. Today it says “kibbutz in southern israel”.
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Place in Israel Gat ( ) is a kibbutz near Kiryat Gat , Israel . It belongs to Yoav Regional Council . Building the kibbutz Kibbutz Gat was founded in 1934 by Jewish immigrants from Poland , Yugoslavia and Austria . In 1948, some of the lands of the nearby Arab village of Iraq al-Manshiyya were transferred to the kibbutz. Primor, one of Israel's largest juice manufacturers, is operated by the kibbutz. Citramed, another company located in Kibbutz Gat, has developed a method to squeeze out the antibacterial properties in the rind of citrus fruit for use as a natural preservative in health products and the food industry. The kibbutz's name is derived from the Philistine town Gath , believed to have been in the same general area. Also from the same source is the town of Kiryat Gat (literally, Gath city).1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “kibbutz near kiryat gat”. Today it says “kibbutz in southern israel”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

kibbutz near kiryat gat

Now

kibbutz in southern israel

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