"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 shared his 491-day ordeal in Gaza and his grief over the loss of his wife and daughters during a program at Palm ...

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 Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi visited the Ohel (gravesite) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe before testifying at the UN Security Council on Thursday to express his gratitude for surviving Hamas ...

Hamas's tunnels were so well fortified that military operations to get hostages out the tunnels alive would have been nearly impossible, recently released hostage Eli Sharabi told Channel 12's "Uvda" ...

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 ...

Former Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi talks to The Jerusalem Report about the 491 days he spent as a hostage in Gaza and how ‘everything’ has changed. When Eli Sharabi, pale and emaciated, emerged from ...

Eli Sharabi assumed the emergency alarm was just another rocket attack – the kind of everyday intrusion that his family had come to consider an unwelcome fact of life as they sheltered at home in ...