Wikipedia's first sentence called it “native to israel”. Today it says “native to the region of palestine as defined by flora palaestina”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Flora of Palestine This is an incomplete list of 2,700 species of vascular plants which are native to the region of Palestine as defined by Flora Palaestina . Flora Palaestina is a work in four volumes published by Brill Academic Publishers between 1966 and 1986, edited by Michael Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan . The region covered includes: the whole area of the State of Israel ; the West Bank ; the Gaza Strip ; the Golan Heights ; the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon ; and the East Bank , which is in Jordan . The table below lists alphabetically all species with initial letters A–B .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
This is an incomplete list of 2,700 species of vascular plants which are native to Israel . The area defined as Palestine in the Flora Palaestina includes: the whole area of the State of Israel as of 2007; the West Bank ; the Gaza Strip ; the Golan Heights ; the Israeli part of Mount Hermon ; and the East Bank , which is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . The table below lists alphabetically all species with initial letters A-B .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
This is an incomplete list of 2,700 species of vascular plants which are native to Israel , Palestine , Jordan and the Golan Heights .This area of Flora Palaestina includes: the whole area of the State of Israel ; the West Bank ; the Gaza Strip ; the Golan Heights ; the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon ; and the East Bank , which is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . The table below lists alphabetically all species with initial letters A-B .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Wikipedia list article This is an incomplete list of 2,700 species of vascular plants which are native to the region of Palestine as defined by Flora Palaestina . The region includes: the whole area of the State of Israel ; the West Bank ; the Gaza Strip ; the Golan Heights ; the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon ; and the East Bank , which is in Jordan . The table below lists alphabetically all species with initial letters A–B .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 945874572.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “native to israel”. Today it says “native to the region of palestine as defined by flora palaestina”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
native to israel
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native to the region of palestine as defined by flora palaestina
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