Dan Margalit

Dan Margalit was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv

Dan Margalit was born on 13 March 1938 in Tel Aviv and grew up there. His father Israel was a doctor and his mother Ora was a psychologist. His younger brother David was also a journalist.

He attended the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a master's degree in modern Jewish history in 1985.

He began as a reporter at HaOlam HaZeh in 1959 and joined Haaretz in 1964. As its Washington correspondent in 1977, he revealed that Yitzhak Rabin held a United States bank account, which led to Rabin's resignation. In 1992 he became editor of Maariv but left after about six months.

On television he hosted the current affairs show Erev Hadash from 1982 and the panel show Popolitica in the 1990s. He moderated the 1996 debate between the candidates for prime minister. In 2007 he moved to Israel Hayom, which fired him in 2017.

In 2018, Haaretz reported that 5 female co-workers accused him of sexual harassment. He rejected the claims and announced that he would stop his journalistic work. He died on 28 August 2025.