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Public Seal of Mandatory Palestine
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “crown with the words "palestine high commissioner" underneath”. Today it says “seal used when palestine was administered by the united kingdom as a league of nations mandated territory”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
Public Seal of Palestine was a seal used when Palestine was administered by the United Kingdom as a League of Nations mandated territory . It was adopted in 1923 and fell out of use in 1948 following the establishment of the State of Israel .
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “crown with the words "palestine high commissioner" underneath”. Today it says “seal used when palestine was administered by the united kingdom as a league of nations mandated territory”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
crown with the words "palestine high commissioner" underneath
Now
seal used when palestine was administered by the united kingdom as a league of nations mandated territory
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