Eli Sharabi and His Hostage Days

On October 7, 2023, the world changed forever. When Hamas militants stormed the Israeli kibbutz of Be’eri, Eli Sharabi, a quiet husband, father, and engineer, was torn from his home and dragged into the tunnels of Gaza. For the next 491 days, he would endure starvation, humiliation, and psychological torment—cut off from sunlight, from hope, and from the family he believed was waiting for him.


But when freedom finally came on February 8, 2025, Eli discovered a truth more devastating than captivity itself: his wife and daughters had been killed on the first day of the war. His survival, once a miracle, became a burden of meaning.


Eli Sharabi and His Hostage Days is a searing true story of endurance and moral awakening—a chronicle not just of one man’s survival, but of the human spirit’s stubborn refusal to die in the face of dehumanization.


This book reconstructs the long nightmare of captivity:


The terror of the October 7 attack, when ordinary families became targets of war.

The underground world of Gaza’s tunnels, where prisoners were chained, starved, and traded like currency.

The false hopes of negotiations, the propaganda, and the psychological cruelty of being both victim and symbol.

The fraught road to recovery, as Eli confronts loss, trauma, and a world that quickly moved on.

The unending struggle for the hostages who remain, and the haunting question—where was the world?

Through it all, Eli’s voice rises above the noise of politics and vengeance to ask something larger: What does it mean to stay human when humanity itself seems to have vanished?

Written with empathy, precision, and courage, Eli Sharabi and His Hostage Days goes beyond headlines and statistics. It is an intimate portrait of survival, a moral reckoning with the price of indifference, and a plea for accountability in an age of moral fatigue.


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