“I’ll come back!” shouts Eli Sharabi to his wife and two daughters as Hamas terrorists drag him through the front door of his little house in Kibbutz Be’eri, a hitherto blissful community 3 miles from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by an Israeli man held in captivity for more than a year by Hamas is coming out this fall in the U.S. Eli Sharabi's “Hostage,” written in Hebrew and already a bestseller in ...

“Hostage,” first published in Hebrew earlier this year, has become the fastest-selling book in Israeli history, offering a powerful firsthand account of Sharabi’s kidnapping from Kibbutz Be’eri and ...

During his 491 days in the literal dark — starved, beaten and held captive in a Gaza tunnel network hundreds of feet underground — Eli Sharabi had one hope keeping him going: being reunited with his ...

Sharabi’s 'Hostage', the first memoir of captivity in Gaza in the aftermath of Oct. 7, serves as a window into an Israeli view of the war. Advertisement Meta ...

"You know, 50 meters underground, you actually understand the meaning in life," said Eli Sharabi. For 491 days, Sharabi was a Hamas hostage. "That it's not your academic degrees and not your ...

Eli Sharabi in Tel Aviv on Sept. 10, 2025. Eli Sharabi’s Hostage, the first memoir of captivity in Gaza in the aftermath of Oct. 7, appeared in Israel in May, just four months after his release; the ...

Ariela Karmel is a reporter and news editor at The Times of Israel covering Israeli society. She previously reported for Haaretz and Calcalist, and holds a master’s degree in Middle Eastern and ...

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with former hostage Eli Sharabi. Sharabi, whose ...

(JTA) — Hamas has announced that it will release three more male hostages on Saturday, including two men in their 50s and one in his 30s who is thought to be injured. The three hostages, all of whom ...

Sharabi also learns while in captivity that his brother, Yossi, was also taken hostage, and has died in an Israeli airstrike. The one cold comfort of this is that it conditions him to the even greater ...