Shimon Moyal

Shimon Moyal (1866–1915) was a Zionist 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.

Early life and education Moyal was born in Jaffa in 1866. Shimon attended Jewish religious schools in Palestine. He and his wife, Esther Moyal, returned to Palestine in late 1908 shortly after the Young Turk revolution in the Ottoman Empire.

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.

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.