Meir Margalit

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Dr. Meir Margalit is a researcher of the history of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine 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, and gradually went for radical left.^[2] He was a member of the Jerusalem City Council, representing Meretz Party between 1998 and 2002. Elected again for Meretz in 2008, he is currently a member of the city council, officially in charge of East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) affairs. He is known for his staunch criticism of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat's views towards the Palestinian residents of the city, which he views as being discriminatory. ^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 A Conversation with Meir Margalit
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Just Vision portrait

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Name	Margalit, Meir
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli historian
Date of birth	1952
Place of birth	Buenos Aires
Date of death
Place of death

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