Original sentence: After that he became writer and journalist.After the war, he returned to studying law at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but abandoned it and became a journalist.He studied mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University, moved to Israel in 1969, and served as paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.In 2004, Shamir was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem by Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna of Sabastia and given the name Adam.. He has three sons, one of whom is the Swedish journalist Johannes Wahlström.Norman Finkelstein is quoted on Tablet saying Shamir "has invented his entire personal history.Originally from Novosibirsk, Shamir moved to Israel in 1969, served as a paratrooper in the IDF in the Yom Kippur War.Shamir was born Izrail Schmerler to a Jewish family in Novosibirsk, Siberia, in 1947
Edited sentence: According to him, he studied mathematics and law at Novosibirsk University.After the war, he says he returned to studying law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but abandoned this for a career in journalism.At birth, his name was Izrail Schmerler.He has three sons, one of whom is the Swedish journalist Johannes Wahlström.He says he moved to Israel in 1969, and states that he served as paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces and says that he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.He says that he served as an Israeli paratrooper in the Yom Kippur War, after which he took up journalism and writing.In 2004, Shamir was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem by Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna of Sabastia and given the name Adam.Norman Finkelstein is quoted by  Tablet magazine article "His Jewish Problem" as saying that Shamir "has invented his entire personal history.Originally from Novosibirsk, Shamir says that he moved to Israel in 1969.Shamir says that he is an ethnic Jew born in Russia who converted to Orthodox Christianity.Shamir says that he was born in Novosibirsk, Siberia, in 1947, although the Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia article "Jews in the Soviet Union" claims Schmerler was born in 1948