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Shimon Moyal (1866–1915) was a Zionism activist and physician. He worked for several newspapers and started a short-lived newspaper with his wife, Esther Moyal. He was the translator of the Talmud into the Arabic language.
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. 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. The paper was edited by Moyal and his wife. 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. 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. Moyal was also very active in the Jaffa freemasonry society and participated in the activities of the Decentralization Party in Egypt (Al-Lamarkaziyah).
Personal life and death
Moyal married a Beirut-born Jewish journalist Esther Al Azhari in 1894. They had a son, Abdullah Ovadia Nadim. He died in Jaffa in 1915 at the age of 49.
Categories: 19th-century Moroccan Jews, 20th-century Moroccan Jews, 20th-century Pakistani Translators, 1866 Births, 1915 Deaths, People From Jaffa, Jewish Physicians, Jewish Journalists, 19th-century Journalists From The Ottoman Empire, 20th-century Journalists From The Ottoman Empire, Translators To Arabic, Talmud Translators, People Of Moroccan-jewish Descent, 19th-century Physicians From The Ottoman Empire, 20th-century Physicians From The Ottoman Empire, Zionist Activists, Sephardi Jews From Ottoman Palestine
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