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An Important Message from Jameel at the Muqata Hi All – It has been a very crazy past few weeks, and we welcome many new followers ...

Hi Muqata Readers. It's been over 10 years since we started the Muqata Blog.  We've informed, conserved and entertained tens of ...

A Personal Reflection on MK Uri Orbach z’l By Jameel @ The Muqata Despite the title above, I never met Uri Orbach personally. I read his...

Theodore Herzl founded the Zionist political movement in the late 19th century, aimed at creating a safe haven for the Jewish people.  Besi...

During the past millennium and a half, Hebrew was used by Jews mainly as a literary language (and, in fact, as the sole literary language)....

A few 'firsts' in Hebrew. All stories mentioned here took place between the 3rd and 20th century, when Hebrew was (supposedly) ...

As is commonly known, Hebrew was a dead language for close to 2000 years. As Israeli linguist Chaim Rabin explains : The speaking of He...