Dan Margalit Eliora, Margalit married Dana, a lecturer at Ariel University. 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 1992 he was appointed editor of "Maariv" by publisher Ofer Nimrodi, but he resigned six months later. In June 2007, Margalit began to write for "Israel HaYom", a new free daily newspaper in
Prime Minister of Malta The office was re-established with the grant of self-government in 1947 with the post being renamed as "Prime Minister of Malta". The post was again suppressed when the 1947 constitution was again suspended between 1958 and 1962 but was retained largely unchanged in the 1964 Independence constitution and the subsequent amendments of 1974 which transformed the form of government into a republic. The President of Malta, who nominally heads the Executive branch, appoints as Prime Minister the member of parliament who, in the opinion of the President, is best able to command a majority of the members of the House