Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with former hostage Eli Sharabi. Sharabi, whose ...

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(RNS) — In a memoir, Eli Sharabi, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, tells how the hostages survived by helping each other under excruciating conditions. (RNS) — How does one remain whole in ...

‘The loss, the sadness and the anger will run alongside my life... but they won't control it,’ says Eli Sharabi, who lost his wife, children and brother to Hamas Author of the article: You can save ...

Until his brother, the former hostage Eli Sharabi, was released from Hamas’s hell in Gaza, we saw his younger brother Sharon almost every day at the Families’ Headquarters. Together with other family ...

In synagogue this past Yom Kippur, someone handed me a machzor with a bookplate that read: “Dedicated by [X] in memory of Rabba Sara Hurwitz and Josh Abraham on the birth of Natan.” Thank God, my ...

Tel Aviv Fashion Week commenced on Sunday night after a two-year hiatus due to the war, with several captivity survivors and their family members being the first to stride down the runway. Dani Miran, ...

Tel Aviv Fashion Week is making a grand return after more than two years of abscence, marked by the highly symbolic presence of former hostage Eli Sharabi on the runway. Dressed in a white suit, ...

HERZLIYA, Israel — Eli Sharabi spent 16 months in filthy tunnels under the Gaza Strip with his legs chained, surviving on moldy pita. Two years after the Hamas attack that started the war in Gaza, he ...

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