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Zvi Arad

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli mathematician and president of netanya academic college”. Today it says “israeli mathematician”.
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Zvi Arad ( Hebrew : צבי ארד ; 16 April 1942, in Petah Tikva , Mandatory Palestine – 4 February 2018, in Petah Tikva, Israel) was an Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University , and president of Netanya Academic College . "Bar-Ilan Presidents | Bar Ilan University" . .biu.ac.il .

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israeli mathematician and president of netanya academic college

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israeli mathematician

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