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Eli Sharabi (right) and Roni Kuban (center) during a reading of Sharabi's book 'Hostage' at the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on May 28, 2026. (Jessica Steinberg/The Times of Israel)
May 29, 2026, 4:05 am
‘Not a day I’m not happy; not a day I don’t feel the loss’: Eli Sharabi on life after captivity
At Jerusalem Writers Festival, author of bestselling ‘Hostage’ talks about mourning his family, time in captivity, regrets from before Oct. 7 and imagining his wife watching him from heaven
By Jessica Steinberg
Sharon Sharabi (L) and Avigdor Liberman (R) in an undated photo released May 4, 2026 (Yisrael Beytenu)
May 4, 2026, 6:10 pm
Yisrael Beytenu, said to eye merger with Eisenkot, adds hostages’ brother to ranks
Sharon Sharabi, who entered public life as a hostage deal advocate, praises ‘true right-wing leader’ Liberman, as opposition looks for ways to challenge Netanyahu’s Likud
By Ariela Karmel
Former hostage Eli Sharabi pictured in Herzliya, on October 20, 2025. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
January 4, 2026, 8:47 am
Eli Sharabi: Lawmakers’ ‘terrible’ comments on legal gatekeepers could lead to violence
Former hostage says elected officials will bear responsibility if someone ‘takes the law into their own hands’; says he has not fully integrated back into Kibbutz Be’eri community
By ToI Staff
Itzik and Talik Gvili, parents of deceased hostage Ran Gvili, on November 22, 2025, at a Hostages Forum rally. (Paulina Patimer/Hostages Forum)
November 29, 2025, 12:02 am
Father of Ran Gvili, one of two remaining hostages, to speak at possible final Tel Aviv rally
Hostages forum indicates Saturday event may be last as it narrows activities to support 2 families, says rallies don’t serve current situation of terror groups searching for bodies
By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
Family members mourn slain hostage Yossi Sharabi at his funeral in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 27, 2025. (Paulina Patimer)
October 27, 2025, 5:23 pm
‘Belated justice’: After two years, hostage Yossi Sharabi laid to rest in Be’eri
Ofir Engel, who was kidnapped alongside Sharabi on Oct. 7 and held with him for months in captivity, recalls kibbutznik surfer sharing scraps of food and taking care of him
By ToI Staff
Yossi Sharabi (Courtesy)
October 12, 2025, 5:37 pm
Yossi Sharabi, 53: Surfer and soccer fan who ‘was all heart’
Kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and slain in captivity, his body returned in October 2025
By ToI Staff
Nira Sharabi, widow of murdered hostage Yossi Sharabi, holding a poster of her husband in a Kibbutz Be'eri video created for the second anniversary of the Hamas invasion and massacre. (Courtesy)
October 12, 2025, 3:21 pm
Kibbutz Be’eri posts anguished video expressing hopes, fears for remaining hostages
Clip set to Yehudit Ravitz song ‘The Day After’ relays the long wait for those held captive; 102 were killed at kibbutz on Oct. 7, and 30 taken hostage; Hamas still holds 4 bodies
By Jessica Steinberg
Freed hostage Eli Sharabi speaks to Channel 12, in an excerpt from an interview set to be broadcast June 6, 2025. (Screen capture via N12 on X)
June 5, 2025, 12:54 pm
Eli Sharabi: In Gaza, we figured we’d be free already if Israel had different government
Says he and fellow hostages had ‘no doubt’ a different leadership would have secured their release much earlier, and they ‘discussed this exact point’ in Hamas tunnel
By ToI Staff
Crowds gather at the Begin Gate of the IDF's Kirya HQ in Tel Aviv calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (Dana Reany / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
March 15, 2025, 2:57 pm
Saturday hostage rallies draw thousands as families end 1st week of encampment
Protests take place as Netanyahu convenes the cabinet a day after negotiators returned from Doha; families forum slam meeting as belated: ‘The opportunity is now’
By ToI Staff
(L) Economy Minister Nir Barkat at his office in Tel Aviv, June 27, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) and (R) Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's 'Uvda' program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Channel 12/screenshot)
March 1, 2025, 3:04 pm
Minister says he had ‘more important things’ to do than watch freed hostage’s testimony
After uproar, Economy Minister Nir Barkat apologizes to Eli Sharabi for dismissing interview in which captivity survivor described torture and starvation
By ToI Staff
Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi, who had been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is paraded by Hamas gunmen before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
February 8, 2025, 1:52 pm
‘Shocked’ PM vows ‘action’ over emaciated hostages; critics ask, ‘What did he expect?’
Security offical: It should have come as no surprise to Netanyahu; hostage’s father blasts him for staying in DC as ‘Israeli citizens are released looking like Holocaust survivors’
By ToI Staff
Top row, left to right: Released hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami seen on a stage set up by Hamas in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, before the terror group handed them over to the Red Cross, February 8, 2025. Bottom row, the three Israelis as pictured before they were abducted. (Eyad Baba / AFP; courtesy)
February 8, 2025, 12:20 pm
Gaunt and frail, hostages Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami freed after 16 months
Sharabi did not know his wife, daughters were murdered on Oct. 7; Levy’s wife was also murdered; Hostages forum: ‘Horrifying images’ of the 3 at Hamas handover show urgent need for all captives to come home
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Ofir Engel, center, as he was released home from Gaza captivity on November 29, 2023 with his parents Yoav, left, and Sharon Engel (Courtesy)
January 19, 2025, 3:15 pm
14 months after hostage son was freed, father says family still held captive by trauma
Ahead of the ceasefire and first phase of hostage deal, Yoav Engel gives a glimpse into the world of a family shaken by their child’s Oct. 7 kidnapping to Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Yossi Sharabi, taken captive by Hamas terrorists when they waged an assault on Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
February 9, 2024, 8:15 pm
IDF: Hostage Yossi Sharabi was likely killed as a result of IDF strike
Army says captive, whose death was announced last month, may have died when forces struck a building, which caused the collapse of the adjacent structure where Sharabi was held
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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