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Proof: Haaretz Explains: How Did a Pilot Flagged for Extremism End up Flying to Israel?

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ab4491f539c390c06b1ada743fbb883a180ec09ca2b2c254698f9a4776f698bd

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969893, mined 2026-10-04 19:52 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 19:44 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 20:05 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-ab4491f539c3.json prints ab4491f539c390c06b1ada743fbb883a180ec09ca2b2c254698f9a4776f698bd. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-ab4491f539c3.json and headline-ab4491f539c3.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-ab4491f539c3.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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