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Israelis in the United Kingdom

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “originally from israel”. Today it says “citizens or residents of the united kingdom who were originally from israel or are of israeli descent”.
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 October 6, 2023

Israeli citizens and nationals or descendants in Britain "British Israeli" redirects here. Ethnic group Israelis in the United Kingdom or Israeli Britons are citizens or residents of the United Kingdom who were originally from Israel or are of Israeli descent.

This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1174708938.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “originally from israel”. Today it says “citizens or residents of the united kingdom who were originally from israel or are of israeli descent”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

originally from israel

Now

citizens or residents of the united kingdom who were originally from israel or are of israeli descent

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