Eli Sharabi, right, on stage, speaks at Congregation Beth El in Voorhees, New Jersey, on Dec. 1, 2025. (Photo credit: Yael Pachino Photography) In the hours leading up to Eli Sharabi’s appearance at ...

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In synagogue this past Yom Kippur, someone handed me a machzor with a bookplate that read: “Dedicated by [X] in memory of Rabba Sara Hurwitz and Josh Abraham on the birth of Natan.” Thank God, my ...

Hundreds gathered Monday to accompany murdered hostage Yossi Sharabi to his final resting place. Sharabi was abducted by the Hamas terror organization during the ...

Released hostage Eli Sharabi on Thursday became the first Gaza captivity survivor to be interviewed by fiery British talk show host Piers Morgan, saying during the interview that maintaining 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 ...

“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 ...

Eli Sharabi’s memoir, the first by a freed Hamas hostage, is coming out in English ‘Hostage,’ already out in Hebrew, instantly became a bestseller in Israel; Sharabi isn’t yet ready to go inside the ...

Hamas hostage in his own words: ‘I’m being kidnapped. In Gaza, a sea of people try to rip me apart’ In an exclusive extract from his book, released captive Eli Sharabi recalls his brutal abduction ...

On Oct. 7, 2023, Eli Sharabi was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists and held for 491 days, before being released last February, an ordeal he recounts in his book "Hostage." He spoke with Seth Doane as ...

Eli Sharabi, an Israeli man held hostage by Hamas for 491 days, met Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles on Monday to discuss the hostage situation in Gaza. The content of ...