A Hebrew weekly with a religious-Zionist orientation, which was in fact an indirect continuation of “Ha-Magid”. The last “Ha-Magid” editor, Isaac Solomon Fuchs invited Simon Menahem Lazar, who was a regular writer for the paper, to edit the weekly together with him and it was he who was forced close it in 1903. Once “Ha-Magid” closed, Lazar could not accept the fact that no Hebrew periodical would appear in Galicia, and decided to publish a new Hebrew weekly, i.e., “Ha-Mizpeh”, gearing it both to Galician and Russian Jews.
The eight page weekly had a section devoted to current affairs in both empires (with an emphasis on news from the Russian Empire) as well as global news; a section for news from the Jewish world, coverage of events in the Zionism movement and its institutions, with an emphasis on news from the Land of Israel; a special section devoted to discussions of Jewish, religious and historical issues; and a section dedicated to articles on science and literature, stories and poetry. In addition it hosted first publications of Hebrew writers who would later became important, such as Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes [Agnon], Uri Zvi Grinberg, and Avigdor Feuersteien (HaMeiri). Although the weekly was regarded as the unofficial organ of the Mizrahi movement in Galicia, there is a noticeable effort on the part of its editor to lend it a non-partisan character and to adapt it to as broad a reading public as possible among readers of Hebrew.