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Hostage by Eli Sharabi is a memoir of the 491 days he spent in Hamas captivity. Mr. Sharabi was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, 2023.
- 208 pages
- Publisher : Harper Influence
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0063489791
My rating for Hostage – 5
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Thoughts:
Mr. Sharabi spent 14 months in Hamas’ underground tunnels. He had three other Israeli hostages with him but the threat of death was hanging over their head every minute, at the whims of their captures.
Hostage by Eli Sharabi is a very intimate survival memoir, there’s no politics, no discussion of solutions or conflicts. Yet, the book has a lot of optimism in between the horrors.
I have to commend Mr. Sharabi and his publisher for keeping the memoir plain and simple, without the high-brow of academia and intellectualism butting in. Nevertheless, his harrowing book is very readable, unflinching, quite touching and very eloquent.
Mr. Sharabi’s wife and two daughters were murdered on October 7, 2023 while he was taken hostage. He did not know it until he was released, but his longing for them while the reader already has the facts is heartbreaking.
One of the points that I felt the book makes is that much of the time we concentrate on things that don’t really matter. This is most likely the effects of social-media and disinformation, most of us though will never realize it.
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