Trivia

Has three daughters: Keren (television director and screenwriter), Shira (deputy director general of the Reshet television network), and Noya.

Began writing for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in the 1960s.

In 1992 he was appointed editor of Maariv by publisher Ofer Nimrodi, but he resigned six months later.

Father, Israel, was a doctor, his mother, Ora, was a psychologist.

In 2018, he was accused of sexual harassment by several journalists in incidents that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.

Margalit studied international relations and modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Studied international relations and modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Newspaper Haaretz reported that five female co-workers accused Dan Margalit of sexual harassment made on them, individually, during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1977, while serving as Washington correspondent of Haaretz, he revealed that Leah Rabin, wife of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, had a United States bank account, illegal in Israel at the time. The story, known as the Dollar Account affair, led to Rabin's resignation and the nomination of Shimon Peres as the Alignment's candidate for prime minister.

In June 2007 he began to write for Israel HaYom, a new free daily newspaper in Israel. On 6 June 2017 he informed the public via his Twitter account that he had been fired from Israel Hayom.