Filmmaker Shlomi Eldar, a prominent Israeli journalist, uses his influence to call attention to a poor Palestinian baby boy in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.  The boy’s family and Eldar are overjoyed when an anonymous Israeli donor agrees to sponsor the operation.  But the situation unexpectedly draws out the mother’s deep-seated prejudice, and in turn, Eldar questions his own ideas about tolerance.  PRECIOUS LIFE is a challenge to the senselessness of ongoing violence, and a demand for human understanding and reconciliation, in the midst of the 2008-2009 blockade of Gaza. 

Shlomi Eldar reports on Arab affairs on Israel’s commercial Channel 10. For almost two decades he has been bringing to the Israeli public the hidden faces and human stories of the ‘little people’ who live on the other side of the border in a strip of land trapped between Israel and Egypt, home to over one million Palestinians. In 2007, Eldar was awarded the prestigious Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media prize and the local equivalent of the Pulitzer. In 2005, following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and evacuation of the settlements there, Yediot Ahronot Publishers published Eldar’s first book EYELESS IN GAZA. Eldar also holds an MA in Middle East Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 

Shlomi Eldar reports on Arab affairs on Israel’s commercial Channel 10. For almost two decades he has been bringing to the Israeli public the hidden faces and human stories of the ‘little people’ who live on the other side of the border in a strip of land trapped between Israel and Egypt, home to over one million Palestinians. In 2007, Eldar was awarded the prestigious Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media prize and the local equivalent of the Pulitzer. In 2005, following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and evacuation of the settlements there, Yediot Ahronot Publishers published Eldar’s first book EYELESS IN GAZA. Eldar also holds an MA in Middle East Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.