Shlomi Eldar (Hebrew: שלומי אלדר; born February 11, 1957), is an Israeli television journalist and film maker.

Shortly afterward, he was transferred to the position of South correspondent, focusing on events happening in Southern Israel.

Fluent in Arabic, Eldar began his involvement in Palestinian affairs when he was sent to cover the Oslo accords.

Eldar sat for over three days watching the Home Front Command attempting to find survivors and broadcast live the rescue of Israeli 9-year-old Shiran Franco.

In the film, Eldar found the house of his parents before their Aliyah to Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

[9] During his time as a reporter in Gaza, Eldar faced hosilities with the IDF, and criticized the army's actions in the Palestinian territories, among other things, when he reported on the demolition of houses in Operation Rainbow, Eldar attempted to prove that an IDF shell caused the death of seven members of the Raliya family on the Gaza coast.

[14] In 2012 Eldar released his book, Getting to Know Hamas, in which he revealed the channel of communication between Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, through the mediation of a foreign diplomat and Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin.

In his acceptance speech, Eldar stated: "I started shooting Foreign Land six years ago, a long time in terms of a film, a chapter in the life of a country.

Six years ago, no one thought of going up to courts with a D-9, artists were not persecuted and threatened, bereaved parents were not reprimanded, the Arabs were not "heading to the polling stations in droves" (in reference to a campaign speech by Netanyahu prior to the 2015 election), annexation was a perverted idea of a fringe extreme right, desecularization of Israel was not a word in our lexicon, and there was no nation state law that legally defined Arabs, Druze and Circassians minorities as second-class citizens.

The film was shot during a coast-to-coast trip in the United States with Anat Kamm, who was convicted of aggravated espionage after leaking secret documents to Haaretz journalist Uri Blau, and included a meeting between Kamm and Pentagon Paper whistleblower Daniel Ellseberg.

[30] Following the public response the film evoked, Kamm received a job offer from Haaretz and was appointed editor of the newspaper's opinion section.

[31] But while other border towns had their stories told in Israel and around the world, the Holit massacre remained unknown to many.