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]