also the coauthor (with professor Idith Zertal) of the book Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007 (Nation Books, 2007) . Awards In October 2007, Eldar won the annual Eliav-Sartawi award for Middle Eastern journalism, awarded by Search for Common Ground, an international conflict transformation organization, sharing it with Jordanian journalist Salameh Nematt. In 2010, Akiva won a Peace through Media Award at the sixth annual International Media Awards hosted by the International Council for Press and Broadcasting in London. Car crash In May 2015, Eldar was seriously injured in Sydney, Australia when he was struck by a car driven by singer Jon Stevens. References External links Brief bio on the Center for Peace site 1945 births Living people Jewish Israeli writers Israeli journalists Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni Israeli columnists Haaretz people People from Haifa Male journalists 20th-century journalists 20th-century Israeli male writers 21st-century journalists 21st-century Israeli male writers