"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 ...

Freed after 14 months, Eli Sharabi learned that his family didn’t survive the Oct. 7 attacks. “Hostage” is testimony to his suffering and his hope. By Ruth Margalit Minutes after Eli Sharabi was ...

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 ...

Two years ago today, Eli Sharabi woke to the alarms on his kibbutz, Kibbutz Be'eri, in southern Israel on the border with Gaza. He rushed his teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel, his wife, Lianne, and ...

The English translation of his memoir will be published this coming October 7, on the two-year anniversary of his kidnapping. The memoir, published in Hebrew in May, will have its English translation ...

Released hostage Eli Sharabi, speaking during an online ceremony on Monday to receive the Golden Book Award for breaking the Israeli record for the fastest-selling book with his recent autobiography, ...

The harrowing memoir of Eli Sharabi, who endured 491 days in Hamas captivity, will be released in English on October 7 — the second anniversary of the terror group ...

NEW YORK – 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 Israel, ...

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 ...

“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 ...