Yoel Margalith
Israeli academic
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Yoel Margalith (Hebrew: יואל מרגלית; February 1933 – 2011) was an Israeli researcher.[1][2] He was a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.[3]
Biography
Yoel Margalith was born in February 1933 in Čantavir, Yugoslavia.[4] Yoel survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the holocaust. In 1948, he emigrated to Israel with his family.[4] Margalith attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3]
Margalith discovered Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and was given the name, Mr. Mosquito, due to this discovery.[4][3][5]