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Shomrim Chosen to Pitch
at Floodlights Fiction in the
Floodlight Select
Journalists
Public Interest Summit
One of Shomrim’s standout investigations, Chen
Shalita’s series on post-mortem reproduction,
was chosen to pitch to filmmakers at the inaugural
Cartagena 2024
Floodlights Summit in Columbia. Floodlights is an

Eyal innovative initiative that connects investigative
journalists with the film and television industry
Abrahami to transform investigative stories into fictional

Eyal Abrahami is the editor-in-chief of Shomrim. He is a senior jour- narratives that both entertain and educate
nalist who has held a number of key reporting and editing roles in
Israeli media. Eyal served as a police reporter in Jerusalem, a news
editor at the now-defunct Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha’ir, a reporter audiences.
coordinator at the national daily newspaper Haaretz, and an inves-
tigative editor at the weekly magazine Sheva Yamim, part of the
Yedioth Ahronoth media group. From 2009 to 2018, Abrahami was
the editor of G Magazine, published by the financial daily newspa-
per Globes. During his career, he covered significant news events,
including the widespread protests against the Oslo Accords and the
assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Abrahami holds
a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations
from the Open University of Israel.

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New Team Members

This year, Shomrim proudly welcomed two new members to its dedicated team of journalists: Haim
Rivlin, an award-winning investigative journalist with a 30-year career spanning most of Israel’s leading
news outlets and Lir Spiriton, an aspiring young journalist from an ultra-Orthodox background who is
covering stories about this community that have received much attention. Their experience and expertise
bring fresh perspectives and strengthen Shomrim’s ability to pursue impactful investigative stories that
resonate with audiences both in Israel and internationally.

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