there is no "standard", only best practices. Many places were originally imported as nodes and have some basic data on them. later people enhanced places with explicit area and, maybe, forgot to move everything from node to the area. Area is obviously better as it clearly marks where some place ends.
Please, if something feels weird to you - do a research or ask community, we'll be happy to discuss and help any time. Removing should be last option. They are very hard to track and hard to recover. 
You can contact community either via telegram group https://t.me/OSM_Israel or in the forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/il/50

I'll revert this removal and merge node with the area so there will not be a duplicate.

