He Spent 491 Days as a Hamas Hostage. This Is How He Survived.

On the two-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Bari Weiss interviews Eli Sharabi, who spent 491 days in Hamas captivity after being taken from Kibbutz Be’eri. Sharabi describes the brutal conditions in the tunnels and the hope that kept him alive—his belief he would reunite with his wife and teenage daughters. But after his release, he learned they had been murdered that day, and his brother had died in captivity. His memoir, Hostage, is the first published account by a released Israeli hostage. This conversation is about the choice to live, even when it seems impossible.