Shimon Moyal

During his studies in Cairo and later Moyal worked for different publications.^[3] One of them was Al Muqattam, a Cairo-based newspaper.^[4] He and his wife, Esther Moyal, returned to Palestine in late 1908^[3][5] shortly after the Young Turk revolution in the Ottoman Empire.^[6]

In 1909 Moyal published an Arabic translation of Talmud entitled At-Talmud: Asluhu wa-tasalsuluhu wa-adabuhu (Arabic: The Talmud: Its Origin, Transmission, and Ethics) to make Judaism much more known by both Muslims and Christians who could read the Arabic texts.^[1] In 1913 he and his friend Nissim Malul launched a Jewish newspaper, Sawt Al Uthmaniyah (Arabic: the Voice of Ottoman), which was published in Arabic.^[3] The paper was edited by Moyal and his wife.^[3][6] Moyals and Malul also founded an association, Ha-Magen (Hebrew: The Shield), which aimed to answer to any hostile article against Zionism published in the Arabic publications.^[3] Another goal of the association was to encourage greater understanding between Jews and Arabs in Palestine and to support the peaceful relations with Arabs living in the region.^[3] Moyal was also very active in the Jaffa freemasonry society and participated in the activities of the Decentralization Party in Egypt (Al-Lamarkaziyah).^[3]

Moyal married a Beirut-born Jewish journalist Esther Al Azhari in 1894.^[3][7] They had a son, Abdullah Ovadia Nadim.^[8] He died in Jaffa in 1915 at the age of 49.^[1]