[4] Regular contributors to the paper included Abraham Moses Luncz, Salomon Buber, and Avrom Ber Gotlober, some of whom sent articles from abroad to be published.

The newspaper seeked to promote a sense of prosperity in order to attract settlers to the then-Ottoman Palestine, including publications of travel stories by Yehoshua Yellin, which began starting in issue 19 of 1871, as well as articles by Rabbi Judah Alkalai,[9] who promoted the idea that it was a mitzvah to make Aliyah, and featured attacks against Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Horowitz, who encouraged Jews to instead immigrate to the United States.

Some writers that joined following Goldman's appointment included Eleazar Rokach [he], Bak's grandson, Naftali Herz Imber, the author of Hatikvah,[17] Avraham Orenstein, David Yellin,[17] Raphael Meir Panigel, the Rishon LeZion, Yechiel Michel Pines,[18] Yosef Rivlin,[17] and Simon Bacher, among others.

[19] The incident stemmed from a disturbance regarding "hooligans" breaking into a prayer service at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av, and international reaction to the ensuing squabble.

[21] It was used, among other things, as an advertisement for the printing house, which was located on the flagship street in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem,[22] which was known as the Havatzelet Courtyard, which was temporarily the home of Ben-Yehuda.