HaLevanon was established in Jerusalem in early 1863 by Yehiel Bril [he], Michal HaCohen and Yoel Moshe Salomon.

[citation needed] Publication ceased in September of 1870 after Bril left Paris to escape the Franco-Prussian War.

[2] In August of 1871, Bril and Marcus Lehmann resumed HaLevanon's publication in Mainz, this time as a weekly supplement to Der Israelit.

The two editors cut ties in July 1881 and Ha-Levanon continued to be published as an independent newspaper until 1882, when Bril helped Russian farmers move to Ottoman Palestine to establish the settlement of Ekron,[2][4] which later became Mazkeret Batya.

[2] It acted as a journal for halakha (Jewish law), alongside publications in the field of Wissenschaft des Judentums.