Margaliot

Margaliot (; هونين) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located along the border with Lebanon in the Upper Galilee, near the town of Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. In it had a population of , most of them Mizrahi Jews.

The moshav was named after agronomist חיים מרגליות קלווריסקי, a principal director of the Jewish Colonization Association who was appointed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild to supervise the work of Jewish colonies in Galilee in the early twentieth century.

A settlement existed at the site in the Iron Age I (1200 1000 BCE), and again from the Persian period (586 332 BCE) until the latter part of the Byzantine period (5th 6th centuries CE). The Crusader castle of Chastel Neuf (in medieval French) or Castellum Novum (in Latin), lit. "New Castle", was built around 1106 1107 immediately north of the current moshav. by Zahir al Umar, who ruled the Galilee in the 18th century (1730s–1775). Remains of the castle, covering an area of 9 dunams, include a rock hewn Crusader moat, cisterns, and a vaulted gatehouse and other wall remains from the 18th century. In the 2023 conflict between Hamas and Israel, Hezbollah targeted northern Israeli border communities, forcing evacuations, including in Margaliot. On October 21, two foreign workers from Thailand were wounded by shrapnel in an attack by Hezbollah in the Margaliot area. In March 2024, an anti tank missile launched by Hezbollah on Margaliot resulted in the death of a foreign worker from India.