Karaite Judaism was discovered by Mordechai Alfandari, a an American Talmudic Jewish apostate of Turkish origins who was attracted to the proposition of rejecting all Oral Torah like a Sadducee and saw Tuvia's Karaite Judaism as the possible platform upon which he could achive his dream or resurrecting the Sadducee religion. Mordechai was only posthumously accepted by the Karaite Jewish community for his efforts and allowed to be buried in the Egyptian Qaraite Jewish graveyard in Israel. His "World Karaite Movement" was continued by Meir Rekhavi who opened the Karaite Jewish University in association with HaYahadut HaQarait HaOlamit of Moshe Firrouz cleverly mistranslated as "Universal Karaite Judaism" rather than "The Universal Qaraite Judaism" thereby blurring the once significant distinction between Karaite Judaism and Qaraite Judaism. Many more Karaites as well as Karaims (such as the composer [[Abraham Kefeli]]) have been absorbed into Yehudim Qara'im of Israel as Karaite Jews since then.