Case file
Ghassan Alian
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “commanding officer of the golani brigade”. Today it says “israeli-druze officer in the idf and the current head of the coordinator of government activities in the territ”.
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 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “commanding officer of the golani brigade”. Today it says “israeli-druze officer in the idf and the current head of the coordinator of government activities in the territ”.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2015 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 2015
Ghassan Elian , or Rasan Alian ( ; born 21 March 1972), is the commanding officer of the Golani Brigade , a colonel by rank. He is the first non-Jewish commander of the brigade and the second Druze officer to command an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade; the first was Imad Fares , commander of the Givati Brigade .1 Alian is the highest ranking Druze in the IDF and has served since 1990.2
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 634128083.
Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “commanding officer of the golani brigade”. Today it says “israeli-druze officer in the idf and the current head of the coordinator of government activities in the territ”. Read the current article and compare.
| 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 |
|---|
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2015 and 2025.
Then
commanding officer of the golani brigade
Now
israeli-druze officer in the idf and the current head of the coordinator of government activities in the territ
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.