Operation Defensive Shield

Operation Defensive Shield - 2002 Israeli military operation. This event is the 4095^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Operation Defensive Shield” in English Wikipedia has 79.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 86 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.18 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Operation Defensive Shield”, its content was written by 244 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 710 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Operation Defensive Shield is on the 4095^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 432 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3237 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1632 in September 2003
• Global: #5992 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #59494 in October 2023
• Global: #24274 in October 2023

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		79.3329
2	Hebrew (he) מבצע חומת מגן		78.6287
3	Simple English (simple) Operation Defensive Shield		60.8745
4	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		45.8765
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Защитная стена»		40.3434
6	Catalan (ca) Operació Escut Defensiu		39.243
7	French (fr) Opération Rempart		29.0785
8	Norwegian (no) Operasjon Forsvarsskjold		26.4399
9	Italian (it) Operazione Scudo difensivo		25.404
10	Persian (fa) عملیات دیوار دفاعی		23.281

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Defensive Shield" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Hebrew (he) מבצע חומת מגן		1 006 042
2	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		703 488
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Защитная стена»		138 706
4	Arabic (ar) عملية الدرع الواقي		108 924
5	French (fr) Opération Rempart		61 998
6	Spanish (es) Operación Escudo Defensivo		31 774
7	Italian (it) Operazione Scudo difensivo		28 940
8	Polish (pl) Operacja Ochronna Tarcza		27 482
9	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		26 541
10	Persian (fa) عملیات دیوار دفاعی		11 945

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Operation Defensive Shield" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		2 085
2	Hebrew (he) מבצע חומת מגן		1 559
3	Russian (ru) Операция «Защитная стена»		489
4	Persian (fa) عملیات دیوار دفاعی		259
5	French (fr) Opération Rempart		149
6	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		111
7	Italian (it) Operazione Scudo difensivo		96
8	Spanish (es) Operación Escudo Defensivo		58
9	Simple English (simple) Operation Defensive Shield		46
10	Polish (pl) Operacja Ochronna Tarcza		37

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Operation Defensive Shield" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		244
2	Hebrew (he) מבצע חומת מגן		191
3	French (fr) Opération Rempart		70
4	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		38
5	Italian (it) Operazione Scudo difensivo		33
6	Russian (ru) Операция «Защитная стена»		32
7	Arabic (ar) عملية الدرع الواقي		22
8	Spanish (es) Operación Escudo Defensivo		22
9	Norwegian (no) Operasjon Forsvarsskjold		11
10	Polish (pl) Operacja Ochronna Tarcza		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Operation Defensive Shield" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Operació Escut Defensiu		1
2	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		1
3	Indonesian (id) Operasi Tameng Pertahanan		1
4	Arabic (ar) عملية الدرع الواقي		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Отбранителен щит		0
6	Czech (cs) Operace Obranný štít		0
7	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		0
8	Spanish (es) Operación Escudo Defensivo		0
9	Persian (fa) عملیات دیوار دفاعی		0
10	French (fr) Opération Rempart		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Operation Defensive Shield" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Hebrew (he) מבצע חומת מגן		1 090
2	Arabic (ar) عملية الدرع الواقي		683
3	English (en) Operation Defensive Shield		432
4	Italian (it) Operazione Scudo difensivo		360
5	Russian (ru) Операция «Защитная стена»		205
6	Persian (fa) عملیات دیوار دفاعی		190
7	French (fr) Opération Rempart		74
8	Spanish (es) Operación Escudo Defensivo		48
9	Catalan (ca) Operació Escut Defensiu		31
10	German (de) Operation Schutzschild		31

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عملية الدرع الواقي
bg	Bulgarian Отбранителен щит
ca	Catalan Operació Escut Defensiu
cs	Czech Operace Obranný štít
de	German Operation Schutzschild
en	English Operation Defensive Shield
es	Spanish Operación Escudo Defensivo
fa	Persian عملیات دیوار دفاعی
fr	French Opération Rempart
he	Hebrew מבצע חומת מגן
id	Indonesian Operasi Tameng Pertahanan
it	Italian Operazione Scudo difensivo
no	Norwegian Operasjon Forsvarsskjold
pl	Polish Operacja Ochronna Tarcza
pt	Portuguese Operação Escudo Defensivo
ru	Russian Операция «Защитная стена»
simple	Simple English Operation Defensive Shield
sk	Slovak Operácia Ochranný štít

Best Rank

English: #59494 10.2023

Global: #24274 10.2023

Best Rank

English: #1632 09.2003

Global: #5992 09.2003

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