Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American retired journalist, television personality, film and book critic, and author.

(Gilˁad Šaliṭ ; born 28 August 1986) a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border.

The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, also known as Wafa al-Ahrar ("Faithful to the free"), followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners — almost all Palestinians and Arab-Israelis, although there were also a Ukrainian,"Ukrainian mother of two among released Palestinian prisoners" , En.ria.ru.