Meir Margalit

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Dr. Meir Margalit, PhD, is a researcher of the history of the Jewish community in Palestine during period of the British mandate and a founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.[1]

Meir Margalit was born in Argentina and moved to Israel with a right-wing Zionist youth group in 1972.[1][2] During his military service he founded a Jewish settlement in Gaza and he fought and was injured in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. During his recovery he changed his views.[2] He was a member in the Jerusalem City Council, for the Meretz Party between 1998 and 2002.[2]

He has been called "the Israeli Nelson Mandela" by La Vanguardia.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c A Conversation with Meir Margalit
  2. ^ a b c Just Vision portrait
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