El Jurnal Izraelit (The Israelite Newspaper), published in Istanbul from 1860 to 1871, was the first long-lived Ladino periodical. In 1873, it changed its name to El Nasional , which later became El Telegrafo . El Jurnal was edited by Ezekiel Gabbai. It began as a weekly, later appearing up to three times a week. According to an advertisement in El Lunar , the first Ladino periodical in Salonica, published by Yehuda Nehama, El Jurnal had a bimonthly political supplement called El Trezoro .

El Jurnal Izraelit was founded and published by the Meclis Peqidim, the lay council in char…