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Yitzhak Arad
Yitzhak Arad was Yad Vashem's longtime director and a Soviet partisan during World War II. Through 2015 the opening said "it was revealed in the 2000s that he had served in the NKVD and from 2006, he was investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lithuania." Today's opening carries none of this, though war crime survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that Lithuania opened a war crimes investigation into Arad.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “war crime” appeared 3 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.
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Yitzhak Arad ( ) (né Itzhak Rudnicki ) (born November 11, 1926), is an Israeli historian , retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993.1 It was revealed in the 2000s that he had served in the NKVD and from 2006, he was investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lithuania .2
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“war crime” appeared 3 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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