"Tommy Alder"

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Tommy Alder (born 11 February 1957) is a journalist and director of Israeli documentary films. He served as a reporter and editor on Channel 1 between 1990 and 2003 and wrote 10 news about the Gaza Strip from 2003 to November 2012.

biography
Alder began his career in the media as a radio broadcaster on the J. After a newspaper course on television, beginning in 1990 to work in the news division of the first channel as an education writer. Soon after, he was transferred to the post office in the south, and among others, he marked what was done in the Gaza Strip after the Oslo Accords were signed. He later served as a political reporter and wrote for special matters. In this framework, he was sent to cover the results of the earthquake in Yasmit and broadcast the bombardment from building demolitions, by a rescue team of the leather command, of the Israeli girl Sheeran Franco. Eldar also served as a look editor for the news and “sense.”

After the establishment of Channel 10 News, she joined her ranks as a correspondent in the Gaza Strip. In 2003, the channel was released to Iraq to photograph his first film, "A bypass Baghdad", which was a journey in the country that was sued after the Second Gulf War and the capture of Sadam Hussein. During the preparation of the film, Eldar found the home of his parents, who immigrated from Iraq in Operation Ezra and Shanghai.

In 2005, he published a book about his book, “Awareness.” The book is his journalist, personal journey, over two decades in the Gaza Strip, between Inifadas, between the dream of peace and a grim reality, the collapse of the Oslo Accords and the rescue of Israel from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005 and the rise of Hamas. In 2007, he won the Sokolov Prize in the field of electronic communications on the coverage of Gaza.

During his period as a correspondent in Gaza, he confronted the IDF and investigated the military operations in the territories, including reporting on demolition of houses in a rainbow operation in the cloud, in June 2006 when he attempted to prove that the IDF shell caused the deaths of seven members of the Raleigh family on the Gaza coast and in December 2008, when he went to the investigation after the breach of a command, which prohibits the entry of Israelis to Gaza Strip, after the ship joined the Gaza Strip. In his film Dear Life, Alder pointed out that he was convinced that his death, a Palestinian photographer, was hit by IDF soldiers who headed to Alder.

During Operation Cast Lead, Eldar posted a live broadcast on Aziz al-Din Abu al-Yish, a doctor from the Gaza Strip who cries out for help who described during the broadcast killing of his three daughters and his nieces from the IDF’s shell injury to his home. The broadcast was alarmed in Israel and was one of the factors for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s withdrawal of a cease-fire and an end of Operation Cast Lead.

In 2010, his documentary "Precious Life", which depicts a struggle for the life of a Palestinian baby with a genetic disease from which two of his sisters died, against the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Gaza. The baby turns to a hospital where he was treated by Dr. Raz. After the broadcast of an article in News 10, a financial contribution was made from a father of all Jews, who lost his soldier son, allowing a bone transplant that would save the baby’s life. During the film, she points out whether she is wishing that her teenage son would be Shahid and that she would send him to a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem. The film was acclaimed at the Jerusalem Film Festival later this year as well at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the Film Festival in Tinory, Colorado, the United States, in the Leipzig Film Festival and more. In September 2010, the film was awarded the Ophir Award for Best Documentary Film and even entered the short list of American Oscars. "Dear Life" was acquired on HBO and distributed to cinemas in France, Canada, Japan and Australia.

In May 2012, he appeared in his book to “inherit Hamas” in a Crown issued, revealing the channel of communication between Khaled Mashel, leader of Khalid