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Wikipedia's first sentence called it "renowned mizrahi haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to torah study and prayer on behalf of the jew". Today it says "haredi rabbi and kabbalist". The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read "Israeli Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist (c. 1898–2006)". It now reads "Israeli Haredi rabbi and kabbalist (c. 1898–2006)". We saved the article's opening at 5 moments between 2025 and 2025, and every claim links the exact revision.

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Yitzhak Kaduri ( Hebrew : יצחק כדורי , Arabic : إسحاق الخضوري ), also spelled Kadouri , Kadourie , Kedourie ; " Yitzhak " ( c. 1898 – 28 January 2006), was a Haredi rabbi and kabbalist . He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash . His amulets were distributed to voters before the Israeli election in May, 1996, in exchange for their votes for Benjamin Netanyahu and the Shas party. During his lifetime he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 108, and his birth year is still disputed. His funeral, held in Jerusalem, drew over 200,000 followers. He did so by distributing thousands of "magic" amulets to his devotees, who were then obliged to vote for Netanyahu in the prime ministerial poll and for the Orthodox Shas party in the simultaneous party elections... Conventionally Orthodox Jews... enjoyed pointing out that his supposedly divine amulets were marked "Made in Taiwan"."

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He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash . His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility . He has not published any religious articles or books . At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 106 to 110.

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Yitzchak Kaduri ( , ), also spelled Kadouri , Kadourie , Kedourie ; " Yitzhak " (died January 28, 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash . His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility . In his life, he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 118, and his birth year is still disputed. His funeral in Jerusalem drew over half a million followers in what was described as the largest funeral in Israel's history.

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Yitzhak Kaduri ( , ), also spelled Kadouri , Kadourie , Kedourie ; " Yitzhak " ( c. 1898 – 28 January 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash . His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility . In his life, he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 108, and his birth year is still disputed. His funeral, which was held in Jerusalem drew over half a million followers in what was described as the largest funeral in Israel's history.

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Israeli Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist (c. 1898–2006) Yitzhak Kaduri ( , ), also spelled Kadouri , Kadourie , Kedourie ; " Yitzhak " ( c. 1898 – 28 January 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash . His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility . In his life, he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 108, and his birth year is still disputed. His funeral, which was held in Jerusalem drew over half a million followers in what was described as the largest funeral in Israel's history.

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