Shlomi Eldar
Fellow
Professional affiliation
Contributing Writer for Al-Monitol, Israel Pulse; Documentary Filmmaker
Wilson Center Projects
"The Hamas Movement and the Muslim Brotherhood: From Rigid Ideology to Reality"
Full Biography
Shlomi Eldar is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. For the past two decades, he has covered the Palestinian Authority and especially the Gaza Strip for Israel’s Channels 1 and 10, and has reported on the emergence of Hamas. In 2007, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media award, for this work. He has published two books: Eyeless in Gaza (2005), which anticipated the Hamas victory in the subsequent Palestinian elections, and Getting to Know Hamas (2012).