The opening once opened “also called the Sbarro massacre”: 15 murdered, 7 of them children. The alternate name is gone from the opening; massacre survives once, in the body.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “massacre” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing took place on August 9 2001 in Jerusalem , Israel . At the time of the massacre, the Jerusalem branch of the Sbarro pizza restaurant chain was located at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel. Just before 2:00 p.m. on a summer holiday afternoon, when the restaurant was filled with customers and pedestrian traffic outside was at its peak, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt weighing 5 to 10 kilograms, containing explosives, nails, nuts and bolts, detonated his bomb. In the blast 15 people (including 7 children) were killed, and 130 wounded. Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad initially claimed responsibility. Several Hamas members were subsequently captured by the authorities, tried, convicted and imprisoned. The bomber himself died in the course of carrying out the attack.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010 6 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing was a Palestinian terrorist attack on a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem , Israel , on August 9, 2001, in which 15 civilians were killed and 130 wounded.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing , also called the Sbarro massacre , was a Palestinian terrorist attack on a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem on 9 August 2001, in which 15 civilians were killed, including 7 children and a pregnant woman, and 130 wounded.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing , also called the Sbarro massacre , was a Palestinian terrorist attack on a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem , Israel , on 9 August 2001, in which 15 civilians were killed, including 7 children and a pregnant woman, and 130 wounded.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
2001 Palestinian attack in West Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bombing on Sbarro, a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem , took place on 9 August 2001, in which 16 civilians were killed, including 7 children and a pregnant woman, and 130 wounded.
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2001 Palestinian attack in West Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bombing at a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem on 9 August 2001 killed 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman.A further 130 were wounded.The attack occurred during the Second Intifada .
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“massacre” appeared 4 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.
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