Wikipedia's first sentence called it “director of the international jewish peace union”. Today it says “israeli poet and activist”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Maxim Ghilan is director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971 , and present editor of the Israel and Palestine Political Report , perhaps the longest-lived periodical in the Middle East . Ghilan was born in France in 1931 , but grew up in Spain . He moved with his mother to Palestine in 1944 , after his father had been abducted by the fascist movement of Francisco Franco , and was never seen again. As a young man, he joined Lehi , also known as the Stern Gang , but changed his philosophy after seeing Arabs tortured while he was in prison during the government of David Ben-Gurion . In the early 1970s, Ghilan became one of the first non-Communists to meet with representatives of the PLO . He later became a personal friend of Yasser Arafat . Because of his support for a Palestinian state, Ghilan lived in exile in Paris from 1969 until his return to Israel after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 . Ghilan is known as a an activist, journalist, writer, and poet.1
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Maxim Ghilan was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Maxim Ghilan (1931–2005) was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Maxim Ghilan (24 March 1931–2 April 2005) was an Israeli poet and activist. He was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli poet and activist (1931–2005) Maxim Ghilan (24 March 1931–2 April 2005) was an Israeli poet and activist. He was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli poet and activist (1931–2005) Maxim Ghilan ( Hebrew : מקסים גילן ; 24 March 1931 – 2 April 2005) was an Israeli poet and activist. He was the director of the International Jewish Peace Union , the first Jewish organization to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a partner in dialogue. He was the co-founder, in 1971, of the periodical Israel and Palestine Political Report .
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director of the international jewish peace union
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israeli poet and activist
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