One of the many cruelties of being kidnapped is knowing that even the longed-for moment of release may end in disaster. It’s ...

The family of hostage Yossi Sharabi confirmed that his body was returned to Israel and he was officially identified at the ...

After being kidnapped in the Oct 7 attack and held hostage by Hamas for 491 days, Eli Sharabi was finally released. This is ...

Sharabi said Hamas would only give him “a piece of pita” bread to eat, along with “a sip of tea.” As he endured brutal beatings and relentless mockery from the terrorists, Sharabi said his will was ...

Today, the last of the living Israeli hostages were liberated after more than two years—and their release has liberated the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On that 7 October morning, the Sharabi family hid for hours in their safe room in Kibbutz Be'eri, an Israeli community of ...

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 bodies of Daniel Peretz, Yossi Sharabi, Guy Illouz and Bipin Joshi have been identified at the National Center of ...

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 ...