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Movie Review: "Precious Life"
(Globe and Mail-Canada) Stephen Cole - Shlomi Eldar, Gaza correspondent for Israel's Channel 10 News, filmed "Precious Life," the engrossing story of a Palestinian infant with a rare and deadly disease who can only be saved by a Jewish doctor at the Tel Hashomer Hospital in Israel. "Precious Life" is short-listed for best documentary film at this year's Academy Awards. Eldar reveals the child's dire situation to Israel, explaining the infant needs a $55,000 operation. A Jewish man who lost his son in a battle with Palestinians offers to pay for the surgery. The reporter gets the infant's family through a war zone to the hospital and helps choreograph the modern miracle cure. In the film's big, second-act surprise, baby Mohammed's mother, Raida Abu Mustafa, is asked in the middle of a chat about religious holidays how she feels about shahids (suicide bombers). Raida responds, "For you life is precious, but not for us....After Mohammed gets well, I will certainly want him to be a shahid."