Shlomi Eldar
Shlomi Eldar (born February 11 1957) is an Israeli journalist and a documentary film director. He previously worked in the Israeli TV news networks Channel 1 and Channel 10 covering Gaza from 2003 until his resignation in November 2012.
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| Born | Shlomo Eliyahu February 11, 1957 |
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| Years active | 1990–present |
| Children | 5 |
Biography
Eldar started his career as a host in an Israeli radio network "Reshet Bet" after taking a course on television announcers. starting 1990 he started working at a national television channel, "Channel 1", as a "education expert". A little later he was transferred to be a "south expert", while also covering Gaza after the Oslo Agreement. Then he was transferred again, this time to a "journalist for special matters". During that title, he was sent to the 1999 İzmit earthquake, and broadcast the rescue of an Israeli girl from ruins of a building close to the first responders of the home front command. He also worked as an editor for The News Hour and Saturday News at Channel 1.
After the founding of national tv news "Channel 10," Eldar joined them as a "Gaza journalist". In 2005 he published his book Eyeless in Gaza with the publisher "Yediot Books" which explored the situation in Gaza from his perspective. In 2007 Eldar won the Sokolov Award for his work as a journalist in Gaza. During his time as a journalist in Gaza he debated many problems with the IDF, and visited military work in the occupied territories. He also worked at the ruins during operation rainbow. In June 2006 he tried to prove the IDF bombed 7 kids from the Raila family at the Gaza beach and in 2008 When he was detained for questioning after he violated a military order, which did not allow entrance for Israelis to Gaza territories. It was found he joined a ship that sailed from Cyprus to Gaza. In his movie Precious Life Eldar noted that his Palestinian cameramen, was injured by IDF soldiers aiming at Eldar.
During Gaza War (2008–09) Eldar went on a live broadcast when his friend Izzeldin Abuelaish, a doctor from Gaza called him and started crying, revealing that his daughters were killed by the IDF, which launched a lawsuit in 2017 where Abulesh sued Israel for purposely bombing his house.
In 2010, his movie Precious Life was premiered, about a Palestinian baby who suffered from a genetic disease, which his two sisters had died from, while the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and the war in Gaza. The movie was a huge hit, being broadcast on HBO and screened at Toronto Film Festival. Eldar won his first Sokolov Award from this film.
In 2015, Eldar went on Master Chef VIP, coming in 10th place.
In 2017, Eldar released his film titled Foreign Land. Eldar once again won the Sokolov reward for best director. The movie was set to premier on Kan 11, when culture Minister Miri Regev criticized the film as being "anti-Zionist" demanded Kan 11 cancel the premier on the network and pull all the advertisements. The network refused and the film played on its scheduled time and later uploaded on-demand.[1]
Eldar currently resides in the United States with his family.
References
- Binyamin, Moshe (2018-02-28). למרות מחאת רגב: כאן 11 ישדר את "ארץ זרה" של שלומי אלדר [Despite Regev's protest: Kan 11 will broadcast Shlomi Eldar's "Foreign Land."]. ice.co.il (in Hebrew).