Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the palestine police who in separate incidents shot dead two suspects and avraham stern”. Today it says “member of the palestine police”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Morton , BEM (1907–1996) was a member of the Palestine Police, who, in two separate incidents, shot five people, three of them fatally. All five people were members of Lehi , a militant Zionist group which attempted to form an anti-British alliance with Nazi Germany and staged an insurgency against British rule in what was then called Mandatory Palestine (now Israel ) during World War II , with the aim of creating an independent Jewish state. Among those killed was Avraham Stern , the leader of Lehi. The circumstances under which Morton killed Stern were disputed, and the controversy effectively ended his active police work in Palestine.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Morton , BEM (1907–1996) was a member of the Palestine Police who in separate incidents shot dead two suspects and Avraham Stern , the leader of a radically militant Zionist group which staged an insurgency against British rule in Palestine during World War Two with the aim of creating a Jewish state. The circumstances under which Morton killed Stern were disputed, and the controversy effectively ended his active police work in Palestine. Stern became regarded as an important forerunner of the political right wing in Israel.
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Morton , BEM (1907–1996) was a member of the Palestine Police who in separate incidents shot dead two suspects and Avraham Stern , the leader of the militant Zionist group, Lehi , which staged an insurgency against British rule in Palestine during World War II with the aim of creating a Jewish state. The circumstances under which Morton killed Stern were disputed, and the controversy effectively ended his active police work in Palestine.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Morton , BEM (1907–1996) was a member of the Palestine Police who in separate incidents shot dead two suspects and Avraham Stern , the leader of the militant Zionist group, Lehi , which staged an insurgency against British rule in Palestine during World War II with the aim of creating a Jewish state. The circumstances under which Morton killed Stern were disputed, and the controversy effectively ended his active police work in Palestine.
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member of the palestine police who in separate incidents shot dead two suspects and avraham stern
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member of the palestine police
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