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Matcal Tower

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 17-floor high-rise building in hakirya”. Today it says “a 17-floor high-rise building at camp rabin military base in hakirya quarter of tel aviv”.
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Matcal Tower is a 17-floor high-rise building at Camp Rabin military base in the HaKirya quarter of Tel Aviv , Israel . It houses the headquarters of the Israel Ministry of Defense and offices of the IDF General Staff (Matcal in Hebrew ). It was built in 2003, and is located close to another IDF building, the Marganit Tower , and across the road from the civilian Azrieli Center . The tower and the Azrieli Bridge connecting the base with the Azrieli Center were designed by Moore Yaski Sivan Architects .1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 17-floor high-rise building in hakirya”. Today it says “a 17-floor high-rise building at camp rabin military base in hakirya quarter of tel aviv”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

a 17-floor high-rise building in hakirya

Now

a 17-floor high-rise building at camp rabin military base in hakirya quarter of tel aviv

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