Meir Margalit (actor)
Meir Margalit ( he, מאיר מרגלית, 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 age of 13. In 1922, he emigrating to Mandate Palestine within the framework of the Hechalutz movement. He worked initially as a construction worker in Tel Aviv and Rishon Lezion and as an agricultural worker in Hadera. For two and half years he was a pioneer in the Jerusalem section of Gdud HaAvoda and worked in a quarry. In 1925, he was chosen and accepted to the drama school of the Ohel Theater under the guidance of Moshe Halevi and in 1929 he joined the acting cast of the theatre. Margalit excelled in fulfilling comic roles. His most successful role was the title role in ''The Good Soldier Schweik'', the play based on the novel by Jaroslav Hašek and translated into Hebrew by Avigdor Hameiri. The p ...
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