Dan Margalit is an Israel

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i journalist

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, author

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 and television host.

Biography

Dan Margalits studied international relations

International relations

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 and modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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. He began writing for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz

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 in the 1960s. He is married to Dana. His daughter, Shira Margalit, is the deputy director-general of the Reshet television network.

Journalism career

In 1977, while serving as Washington

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 correspondent of Haaretz

Haaretz

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, he revealed that Leah Rabin, wife of prime minister

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 Yitzhak Rabin

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, had a United States

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 bank account, illegal in Israel at the time. The story, known as the Dollar Account affair

Dollar Account affair

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, led to Rabin's resignation and the nomination of Shimon Peres

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 as the Alignment

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's candidate for prime minister.

In 1992 he was appointed editor of Maariv

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 by publisher Ofer Nimrodi, but he resigned six months later. In June 2007, Margalit began to write for Israel HaYom

Israel HaYom

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, a new free daily newspaper in Israel.

Television career

Margalit has been one of the regular hosts of the Israeli Educational Television

Israeli Educational Television

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's current affairs show "Erev Hadash" since its early days in 1982. During the 1990s he hosted current affairs panel shows on Channel 1

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 and later on commercial television. Since 2004 he has hosted a current affairs panel show on Channel 10.

External links

• "Flowers in the gun barrel" - May 21, 2004
• Unnecessary excitement on the left - June 15, 2004