Avishai Margalit
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Avishai Margalit is an Israeli author and scholar. Born in Palestine in 1939 he was raised and educated in Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D., summa cum laude, in 1970 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Margalit traveled abroad teaching and lecturing, acting as a British Council Scholar at Oxford University and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He also contributes to the New York Review of Books.