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Yitzhak-Meir Levin

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “ultra-orthodox jewish polish and israeli politician”. Today it says “haredi politician in poland and israel”.
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Yitzhak-Meir Levin ( , born 30 January 1893, died 7 August 1971) was an Haredi (ultra-orthodox Jewish ) politician who was a Member of Parliament in both Poland and Israel .1 One of 37 people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence , he served in several Israeli cabinets, and was a longtime leader and Knesset minister for Agudat Yisrael and related parties.

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Then

ultra-orthodox jewish polish and israeli politician

Now

haredi politician in poland and israel

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