In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “president and founder of the middle east media research institute”. Today it says “president and co-founder of memri”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew יגאל כרמון) is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).1He is a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces reserves. According to MEMRI's original site: He served in the IDF/Intelligence Branch from 1968 to 1988 . From 1977 to 1982 he was the Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Civil Administration. Carmon’s retirement from the IDF he was Advisor to Premiers Shamir and Rabin for Countering Terrorism from 1988 to 1993. In 1991 and 1992 he was a senior member of the Israeli Delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington . During his time in Military Intelligence, he became a senior officer of its Unit 504 , a small secret unit dedicated to human intelligence which was particularly active in Lebanon [1] and administers Facility 1391 , a prison described by critics as "Israel's Guantanamo ". Between 1994-1996, he argued that "public declarations made by Arafat and his associates contradicted the spirit of the Oslo accords and reflected their genuine intentions." ( Yossi Melman ) v t e v t e2
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The opening as it stood in 2010 7 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew יגאל כרמון) is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), and organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications, radio and TV broadcasts and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew יגאל כרמון) (born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew יגאל כרמון) (born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet. Carmon was a colonel at Aman , the Israeli military intelligence service, and later counter-terrorism advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli spy and think tank co-founder Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew יגאל כרמון) (born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet. Carmon was a colonel at Aman , the Israeli military intelligence service, and later counter-terrorism advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir . Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Israeli intelligence officer and MEMRI co-founder Yigal Carmon ( Hebrew : יגאל כרמון ; born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications, radio and TV broadcasts, and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet. Carmon was a colonel at Aman , the Israeli military intelligence service, and later counter-terrorism advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir . Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence .
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president and founder of the middle east media research institute
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president and co-founder of memri
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