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Meir Margalit

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Meir Margalit

Jerusalem City Council member
In office 1998–2002
In office 2008–?

Personal details
Born	1952 Argentina
Political party	Meretz
Alma mater	Haifa University
Occupation	Human and Civil Rights Activist
Known for	Founder of Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, Researcher of the history of the Jewish community during the period of Mandatory Palestine and a frequent speaker and lecturer.

Dr. Meir Margalit (born 1952) is a human and civil rights activist in Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D. in history from Haifa University. Dr. Margalit is a researcher of the history of the Jewish community during the period of Mandatory Palestine, specializing in the early peace and bi-national movements within the population prior to the U.N. mandated partition of Palestine in 1947, and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Dr. Margalit is a founder of the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions, and CAPI, The Committee for the Advancement of Peace Initiatives.^[1]

Meir Margalit was born in Argentina and moved to Israel in 1972.^[1]^[2] During his military service he served in a Jewish settlement in Gaza Strip. He was injured in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. During his recovery he began to gradually adopt a radical progressive and pacifist position.^[2] He was an elected member of the Jerusalem City Council, representing the Left-Wing 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 the East Jerusalem portfolio. He is known for his staunch criticism of the various Jerusalem mayors for their policies of perceived and realized discrimination towards the Palestinian residents of the city.^[2] Margalit is the author of various books on municipal policy and a frequent speaker and lecturer in many countries around the world.

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^ ^a ^b A Conversation with Meir Margalit

^ ^a ^b ^c Just Vision portrait Archived 2007-03-15 at the Wayback Machine

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