Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the early parachutists of pre-state israel”. Today it says “one of the early parachutists of mandatory palestine”.
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Peretz Rosenberg Peretz Rosenberg ( Hebrew : פרץ רוזנברג ; September 11, 1919 - October 25, 2008) was one of the early parachutists of Mandatory Palestine . As the radio operator of special forces leader William Deakin , he was parachuted into Yugoslavia in 1943 on a mission to reach the headquarters of Tito. After World War II, he became head of the clandestine radio service of the Haganah . Rosenberg was the inventor of many agricultural water-saving devices. Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust: Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of New York A brave fighter , Jerusalem Post Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia, Franklin Lindsay and John Kenneth Galbraith Fluid-flow control device particularly useful as a drip–irrigation emitter
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Peretz Rosenberg Peretz Rosenberg ( ; September 11, 1919 - October 25, 2008) was one of the early parachutists of pre-state Israel . As the radio operator of special forces leader William Deakin , he was parachuted into Yugoslavia in 1943 on a mission to reach the headquarters of Tito. After World War II, he became head of the clandestine radio service of the Haganah . Rosenberg was the inventor of many agricultural water-saving devices. Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust: Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of New York A brave fighter , Jerusalem Post Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia, Franklin Lindsay and John Kenneth Galbraith Fluid-flow control device particularly useful as a drip–irrigation emitter
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Peretz Rosenberg Peretz Rosenberg ( ; September 11, 1919 - October 25, 2008) was one of the early parachutists of Mandatory Palestine . As the radio operator of special forces leader William Deakin , he was parachuted into Yugoslavia in 1943 on a mission to reach the headquarters of Tito. After World War II, he became head of the clandestine radio service of the Haganah . Rosenberg was the inventor of many agricultural water-saving devices. Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust: Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of New York A brave fighter , Jerusalem Post Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia, Franklin Lindsay and John Kenneth Galbraith Fluid-flow control device particularly useful as a drip–irrigation emitter
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Then
one of the early parachutists of pre-state israel
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one of the early parachutists of mandatory palestine
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