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Meir Park, Tel Aviv

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “public park”. Today it says “park dating back to the early 1940s in the center of tel aviv”.
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The opening as it read in 2015

Meir Park Meir Park ( , Gan Meir ) is a 3 hectares (7.4 acres) public park , bounded by King George Street and Tchernichovsky Street in the center of Tel Aviv , Israel . Meir Park opened to the public on March 10, 1944.1 It is named after the first mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Dizengoff . The park is home to the Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center .2 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gan Meir . 32°4′23.59″N 34°46′23.48″E  /  32.0732194°N 34.7731889°E  / 32.0732194; 34.77318893

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “public park”. Today it says “park dating back to the early 1940s in the center of tel aviv”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

public park

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park dating back to the early 1940s in the center of tel aviv

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