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Former Hamas hostages Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel made their first live public appearance together in the UK. Pic: Julian Coleman
May 5, 2026, 5:31 pm
Former hostages Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel make first joint live appearance
More than 400 guests attended London dinner for Strands of Hope, raising £300,000 to support vulnerable young people in Israel
By Rosa Doherty
Eli Sharabi's memoir recounts his 491 days as a Hamas hostage in Gaza. (Harper Influence)
February 18, 2026, 12:10 pm
Eli Sharabi’s ‘Hostage’ memoir named Jewish book of the year
Journalist Julia Ioffe, former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz and historian Pamela Nadell are also winners of a National Jewish Book Award
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
Eli Sharabi lights Chanukah candles with daughter Yahel and (rightI her older sister Noiya. The sisters were murdered on October 7 with their mother Lianne
December 11, 2025, 9:48 am
‘Don’t be afraid to be Jewish or hide who you are’
Former hostage gives a powerful message to the community this Chanukah
By Eli Sharabi
Blake Ezra Photography/UJIA Eli Sharabi. St. John's Wood synagogue Monday 28 April 2025
November 27, 2025, 5:39 pm
Eli Sharabi shortlisted as antisemitism centre announces 2025 prize finalists
London antisemitism centre names finalists for its 2025 awards, including Eli Sharabi’s memoir Hostage
By Annabel Sinclair
Yossi Sharabi’s daughters and family deliver emotional eulogies at his funeral in Kibbutz Be’eri, 27 October 2025. (Credit: GPO)
October 27, 2025, 3:19 pm
Tears and tributes as slain Gaza hostage Yossi Sharabi buried in Kibbutz Be’eri
Hundreds gather as family, President Herzog and freed hostages bid farewell to Be’eri resident murdered in Hamas captivity
By Annabel Sinclair
Screenshot: Eli Sharabi Twitter/X
October 20, 2025, 4:39 pm
Eli Sharabi ‘Hostage’ memoir a bestseller in UK and USA
A week after its release, book reaches top of both New York Times and Sunday Times lists
By Michelle Rosenberg
Eli Sharabi (black jacket) is reunited with his brother Sharon and his sisters Osnat and Hila at Sheba Medical Center after he was released by Hamas on Saturday, February 8, 2025, along with two other male hostages as part of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the terrorist group. The men spent 491 days in captivity after being abducted on October 7, 2023. Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News
October 6, 2025, 11:06 am
Eli Sharabi: ‘The promise that kept me alive’
The first Israeli hostage to write a memoir speaks to Jewish News ahead of the UK release of Hostage
By Annabel Sinclair
David Lammy meets Eli Sharbi in his Westminster office
June 23, 2025, 6:28 pm
After meeting a freed hostage Lammy reminds MPs how Hamas use starvation as weapon
The Foreign Secretary tells the Commons of 'humbling' meeting with freed hostage Eli Sharabi earlier on Monday
By Lee Harpin
Eli Sharabi (right) with the Golden Book Award for Hostage. Credit: X
June 23, 2025, 4:53 pm
Eli Sharabi breaks Israeli sales record with memoir penned after Hamas captivity
‘Hostage’ sells 20,000 copies in a week as ex-captive says language helped him survive
By Annabel Sinclair
Blake Ezra Photography/UJIA Eli Sharabi. St. John's Wood synagogue Monday 28 April 2025
April 30, 2025, 11:46 am
OPINION: Eli Sharabi is Jewish resilience
Listening to the former Hamas hostage speak had profound impact on 1,400-strong crowd
By Josh Rose
Blake Ezra Photography/UJIA Eli Sharabi. St. John's Wood synagogue Monday 28 April 2025
April 29, 2025, 10:48 am
Standing ovation for Eli Sharabi as former hostage shares story of survival in Gaza tunnels
The former captive said he would never give up his efforts to free the 59 remaining in Gaza at the UJIA and United Synagogue event attended by 1400
By Michelle Rosenberg
British former hostage in Gaza Emily Damari.
April 22, 2025, 12:17 pm
Emily Damari and Eli Sharabi to light Israel Independence Day torch
Former hostages among those chosen for honour at Mount Herzl Yom Haatzmaut ceremony
By Michelle Rosenberg
Eli Sharabi speaks at a UN Security Council meeting in New York
March 20, 2025, 3:10 pm
Eli Sharabi: ‘Where was the UN, the Red Cross… where was the world when we needed them?’
Freed Israeli hostage bravely shares his testimony at a UN Security Council meeting
By Lee Harpin
March 7, 2025, 12:35 pm
Keir Starmer tells freed hostage Eli Sharabi the way Hamas treated him was ‘inhuman’
The PM hosted Eli Sharabi, whose Bristol-born wife Lianne and teenage daughters Noiya and Yahel were killed by Hamas, at No.10 on Friday
By Lee Harpin
Israeli captive Eli Sharabi, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip
February 9, 2025, 3:32 pm
Family of freed hostage say he is frail and ‘the spark was gone from his eyes’
'It’s not the Eli that that I know and love. Obviously, the impact of 491 days was written all over his face'
By Jewish News Reporter
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