The word “siege” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 4 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “siege” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2010 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2010
Sha'ar HaGai or Bab El-Wad ( or , or lit. On April 20, the Arabs recaptured the heights around Sha'ar HaGai, closing the Tel Aviv road.” The Palmach 10th (Harel) brigade (under the command of Lt. Yitzhak Rabin , future prime minister of Israel) managed to capture the area, but the rest of the Jerusalem road remained under Arab control. In order to bypass the road, the so-called " Burma Road " was constructed (named after the World War II road into China ). After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War , when the Latrun area was captured, the main Tel-Aviv –Jerusalem highway was once again constructed through Sha'ar HaGai. To this day, rusted armored cars that were destroyed during the 1948 war line the route to commemorate the war. There is also the Mahal Memorial Monument, which commemorates the 119 Jewish fighters that died there. Pillars of the community Jerusalem Post , 27 April 2006.1
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 341942414.
The opening as it stood in 2005
In 1948, a caravan of of 77 Jewish doctors, nurses and patients bringing medical supplies and food to the besieged Jews of Jerusalem were slaughtered by Arab guerrillas on this route. The tragedy was remembered in the Israeli War of Independence song of the same name (Bab el Wad), and vehicles that were destroyed to this day line the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to commemorate the incident.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 17674135.
The opening as it stood in 2015 8 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Sha'ar Hagai A list of Mahal soldiers who fell during the Israeli Independence War (1948) , on Mahal Memorial, Israel A bulldozer tows a truck on the "Burma Road" to Jerusalem, June 1948 Sha'ar HaGai in Hebrew, or Bab al-Wad in Arabic ( or , or ), lit.Gate of the Valley in both languages, is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway , 23 km from Jerusalem , where the road begins to ascend into a gorge between cliffs, named in Arabic Wadi Ali.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 645258432.
The opening as it stood in 2020 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Bab al-Wad in 1917 Sha'ar HaGai ( ) in Hebrew, and Bab al-Wad or Bab al-Wadi in Arabic ( , or باب الوادي ), lit.Gate of the Valley in both languages, is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway , 23 km from Jerusalem , where the road begins to ascend through a deep valley flanked by steep rocky slopes, named in Arabic Wadi Ali.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 954205199.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Road to Jerusalem at Bab al-Wad seen from Arab Legion positions at Latrun , 1948 Outpost 21 on Shayarot Ridge [ HE ] over Sha'ar HaGai - on the right is Highway 1 , and on the left is Burma Road Old armored vehicles at Sha'ar HaGai Sha'ar HaGai ( ) in Hebrew, and Bab al-Wad or Bab al-Wadi in Arabic ( , or باب الوادي ), lit. Gate of the Valley in both languages, is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway , 23 km from Jerusalem , where the road begins to ascend through a deep valley flanked by steep rocky slopes, of the intermittent stream Nahshon Stream [ he ] (Arabic: Wadi Ali).
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1144530779.
The opening as it stood in 2025
Point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway Road to Jerusalem at Bab al-Wad seen from Arab Legion positions at Latrun , 1948 Outpost 21 on Shayarot Ridge [ HE ] over Sha'ar HaGai - on the right is Highway 1 , and on the left is Burma Road Old armored vehicles (" sandwich trucks ") at Sha'ar HaGai Sha'ar HaGai ( Hebrew : שער הגיא ) in Hebrew, a name literally translated from Bab al-Wad or Bab al-Wadi in Arabic ( Hebrew : באב אל-ואד , Arabic : باب الواد or باب الوادي ), meaning Gate of the Valley , is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway , 23 km from Jerusalem , where the road begins to ascend through a deep valley flanked by steep rocky slopes, of the intermittent Nahshon Stream [ he ] , or Wadi Ali in Arabic.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1280791856. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
“siege” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4. Read the current article and compare.
2005
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
Sections that no longer exist
Present on 6 October 2023, absent today. A heading can vanish because the section was deleted or because it was renamed or merged, and we have not separated those here, so treat this as a list of what to check rather than a verdict.
Ottoman era1,290 characters
Jordanian rule751 characters
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
