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Shmuel Rosner

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “columnist and blogger for the jerusalem post”. Today it says “tel aviv based columnist”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Career & Life; Critical acclaim; Controversy”.
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The opening as it read in 2020

Shmuel Rosner ( ) is an Israeli columnist, editor, and researcher. He is a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times . He is the political editor of the Jewish Journal for which he writes the daily blog Rosner's Domain . In 2008–2011, he wrote for The Jerusalem Post . In 2005–2008, he was chief United States correspondent for the daily newspaper Haaretz . Rosner writes in Hebrew for Maariv Daily . Rosner is also the non-fiction chief editor for Israel's largest publishing house, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir .1 He is also a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute ( JPPI ) .2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “columnist and blogger for the jerusalem post”. Today it says “tel aviv based columnist”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Career & Life; Critical acclaim; Controversy”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

columnist and blogger for the jerusalem post

Now

tel aviv based columnist

Sections that no longer exist

Present on October 6, 2023, absent today, with no near-matching heading in the current article and the article shorter overall, so this is not a renamed heading or a topic absorbed into a fuller treatment. 3 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 2,291 characters shorter.

  • Career & Life
  • Critical acclaim
  • Controversy
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