Margalit (, ''lit''.

pearl A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle (mollusc), mantle) of a living Exoskeleton, shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pear ...

) is a

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

-language given name and surname. Before the

First Aliyah The First Aliyah (), also known as the agriculture Aliyah, was a major wave of Jewish immigration (''aliyah'') to History of Israel#Ottoman period , Ottoman Palestine (region) , Palestine between 1881 and 1903. Jews who migrated in this wave cam ...

it was mainly used in this form by

Sephardic Jews Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

, while its variant Margulis was more common among Ashkenazis. It may refer to:

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Avishai Margalit Avishai Margalit (; born 1939) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Early life and ...

(born 1939), Israeli philosopher *

Dan Margalit (journalist) Dan Margalit (; born March 13, 1938) is an Israeli journalist, author and television host. Biography Dan Margalit was born and raised in Tel Aviv. His father, Israel, was a doctor, and his mother, Ora, was a psychologist. He studied internationa ...

(born 1938), Israeli journalist, author and television host *

Itay Margalit Itai Margalit (; born 25 January 1970) is a retired Israeli high jumper. He finished ninth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships. He also competed at the 1990 European Championships, the 1993 World Championships, the 1994 European Champions ...

(born 1970), retired Israeli high jumper * Meir Margalit (born 1952), Argentine-born Israeli researcher of the history of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine and a founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions *

Meir Margalit (actor) Meir Margalit (; b. 3 May 1906, d. 1974) was an Israeli stage actor. Biography Margalit was born in 1906 in Ostrołęka, in the Łomża Governorate of Congress Poland, then part of in the Russian Empire, and began acting in his home town at the ...

(1906–1974), Israeli stage actor *

Erel Margalit Erel Margalit (; born 1 January 1961) is an Israeli high-tech and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) and the founder of two non-profit organi ...

(born 1961), Israeli politician and a high-tech and social entrepreneur * Yanki Margalit (born 1962), Israeli entrepreneur and speaker best known for starting Aladdin Knowledge Systems. He is currently Chairman of SCREEMO and

SpaceIL SpaceIL is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL successfully launched its ''Beresheet'' lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it enter ...

Gilad Margalit Gilad Margalit (; 1959 in Haifa, Israel – 23 July 2014) was an Israeli historian, writer, and professor in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa. Margalit's academic research focused on various aspects of post-war Germa ...

(1959–2014), Israeli historian and writer, professor at the University of Haifa

First name

Margalit Fox Margalit Fox (born April 25, 1961) is an American writer. After earning a master's degree in linguistics, she began her career in publishing in the 1980s. In 1994, she joined ''The New York Times'' as a copy editor for its ''Book Review'' and la ...

(born 1961), American author and writer for ''The New York Times'' *

Maggie Gyllenhaal Margalit Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal ( , ; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gylle ...

(born 1977, as Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal), American actress, half

Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

descent *

Margalit Tzan'ani Margalit "Margol" Tzan'ani (; born December 19, 1948) is an Israeli singer and television personality. Tzan'ani is famous for her repertoire of Israeli oriental music style with soul influences, as well as jazz, blues, rock, and pop. Biography ...

(born 1948), also known as Margol, Israeli singer and television personality * Margalit Sharon (died 1962), first wife of

Ariel Sharon Ariel Sharon ( ; also known by his diminutive Arik, ; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestin ...

Margalit Matitiahu Margalit Matitiahu (; born 1935, in Tel Aviv) is a poet in Ladino and Hebrew from Israel. After the Holocaust, her parents moved to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece where they were Sephardi Jews who were descendants of Jews from León. She studi ...

(born 1935), Israeli poet in Ladino and Hebrew

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{{given name, type=both Hebrew-language surnames Surnames of Sephardic origin

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