Freed hostage Eli Sharabi to meet Trump this week, brother says

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi is set to fly to the United States this week to meet with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, his brother Sharon Sharabi says.

Speaking on Channel 12, Sharon Sharabi says that released captives, including his brother, will meet with Trump on Tuesday.

He does not name any others who will make up the delegation but says they will impress on the president the importance of all the hostages being freed.

Sharon Sharabi says the trip is taking place “due to the generosity” of Miriam Adelson.

In an interview last week, Eli Sharabi described to Channel 12 having been chained, beaten and starved by his captors, with abuse getting worse whenever Israeli leaders touted the worsened conditions of captured Hamas operatives.

Sharon Sharabi says that subtitled segments of the interview were passed to Trump. On Friday, Economy Minister Nir Barkat said he had “more important things” to do rather than watch the interview.

Sharabi, 53, was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Sharabi lost 40 percent of his body weight in captivity, and learned upon returning to Israel that his wife Lianne and teenage daughters Noiya and Yahel were murdered in the Hamas onslaught.

His brother Yossi Sharabi was also taken hostage on October 7 and was likely killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. His body is still being held by terrorists.

After Sharabi was released, Trump said he and two others looked “like Holocaust survivors.”