Hi Uri, the masorectic markings are fairly recent aren't they?

What is the purpose of the 62 weeks in your view?

Would God thought it so important to send Gabriel to foretell of some messiah figure in verse 26 who proved out to be a total unknown, as in Judaism interpretation?     After all, for example, the horn on the goat as being foretold to be the king of Greece, in retrospect turned out to be Alexander the Great.    And the little horn in Judaism's view, Antiochus IV.   Both well known historical figures.

But in Daniel 9:26 - not a king at all, but some high priest, who is a total unknown to history.   That doesn't make sense to me.
And what difference did it impart anything that high priest died?

My Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall - Judith Durham