Hostage by Eli Sharabi
Book Blurb:
On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged barefoot out his front door while his family watched in horror, Sharabi was plunged into the suffocating darkness of Gaza’s tunnels where he endured 491 days in captivity. As war raged above him, Sharabi held onto the hope that he would be reunited with his loved ones. In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel’s history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions—starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors.
My Review: 5 stars
Hostage by Eli Sharabi is an honest, heartbreaking and often painful book to read as Sharabi shares his story of captivity, perseverance and bravery. Sharabi was held hostage for four hundred and ninety-one days without knowing if his two daughters or his wife were alive.
This is an important book to read so that the world at large can understand what happened on October 7th, 2023. Sharabi shares the good, the horrific, the hunger, the humiliation, the camaraderie with fellow prisoners, the connections made with some of his guards and the isolation he endured. I can’t imagine how anyone gets through such terror, yet here the author opens his heart and his faith for the reader to understand.
Well written and gripping from start to end
Quotes I liked:
I focus and concentrate on one mission: surviving to return home. There is no more regular Eli. From now on, I am Eli the survivor.”
“Hersh looks at us. “He who has a why can bear any how,” he says.”
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