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Yaakov Alperon
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack”. Today it says “israeli mobster”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack”. Today it says “israeli mobster”.
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Yaakov Alperon ( , (February 18, 1955 – November 17, 2008), was an Israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack.1 He was reputed to have run Tel Aviv 's third-largest crime family , the Alperon crime family. "Israeli 'mafia' boss assassinated" , BBC News , November 17, 2008.2
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israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack
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israeli mobster
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