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Gesher Theatre

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli theater company founded in 1991 by new immigrants from russia”. Today it says “israeli theatre company based in jaffa founded in 1991 by a group of actors from the former soviet union”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Noga Hall - '”. It now reads “Israeli theatre company”.
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.
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The opening as it read in 2025

Gesher' residence Gesher Theater is an Israeli theater company founded in 1991 in Tel Aviv by new Olim from the Soviet Union . It performs both in Russian and Hebrew.

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1280817272.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli theater company founded in 1991 by new immigrants from russia”. Today it says “israeli theatre company based in jaffa founded in 1991 by a group of actors from the former soviet union”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Noga Hall - '”. It now reads “Israeli theatre company”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.

Then

israeli theater company founded in 1991 by new immigrants from russia

Now

israeli theatre company based in jaffa founded in 1991 by a group of actors from the former soviet union

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 1 section of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 12,070 characters shorter.

  • Plays at Gesher Theater
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