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
Yitzhak Rabin: A Biography gravity of the matters at hand. When Rabin's wife, Leah, was put under trial for having an illegal American bank account (an incident which became known as the Dollar Account affair), he felt forced to resign as Prime Minister. Out of office, he published his memoirs, which were highly critical of Peres and other Leftists. He had hoped his book would boost his popularity, but it had the opposite effect. His shyness, which made him seem cold and aloof, only made matters worse. Rabin was convinced that he's days of political prestige were behind him. But, thanks to his wife's