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Joel Rosenberg: Released Hamas Hostage Speaks Out (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report

November 27, 2025 | 29:39

Joel Rosenberg: Released Hamas Hostage Speaks Out (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report
In this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg continues his talk with Eli Sharabi, who was held captive by Hamas for 491 days.
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The Rosenberg Report | Joel Rosenberg: Released Hamas Hostage Speaks Out (Part 2) | The Rosenberg Report | November 27, 2025
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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  • You know, in captivity, in this life.
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  • Something like that very extreme that's happening to you.
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  • You try to find any source that give you, strength
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  • And faith in god's will is one of them.
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  • And it was amazing for us.
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  • What did eli sharabi tell president
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  • Trump in the oval office after he was released from 491
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  • Days in hamas hell? what did he say
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  • When he addressed the un security council?
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  • How badly was he tortured and what gave him the inner
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  • Strength to survive?
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  • Tonight, part two of joel's in-depth,
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  • A moving conversation with eli sharabi,
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  • The most famous israeli to survive the terror tunnels
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  • Right here, right now on the rosenberg report.
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  • How in the world that eli sharabi survived
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  • 491 days in hamas hell last week?
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  • You heard him tell the story of what he lost,
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  • What he suffered, the murder of his wife,
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  • The murder of his two daughters, 491 days in hell,
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  • In those hamas, tunnels underneath gaza.
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  • But this week, we're going to go into a much more detail.
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  • We're going to talk to him about,
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  • The, the way he was tortured, the way he was brutalized,
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  • Not just him, but his several hostages.
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  • And we're going to talk about where did he find
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  • The internal strength to endure
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  • And not completely give up and dissolve
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  • Into despair and depression and, yeah, just,
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  • You know, and just weeping uncontrollably for 491 days.
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  • Good evening, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • It was such an interesting show last week.
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  • I, i hope that you watch it.
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  • If you haven't seen it, please go to rosenbergreport.tv
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  • Or of course, to our youtube channel.
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  • Go watch part one of this show.
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  • But i want and and this is a book,
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  • Eli sharabi█s new book, which is a huge monster
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  • Bestseller here in israel when it was released in hebrew,
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  • In the spring, then was released in english, on october 7th.
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  • And it is a must read.
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  • I read it cover to cover.
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  • It is super powerful.
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  • I cannot recommend it highly enough if you care.
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  • As a christian,
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  • Or as anybody about israel at all and what
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  • Israel has been through,
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  • This is the story you need to read,
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  • Because it's the only book written by an actual surviving
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  • Israeli hostage.
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  • And he spent 16 months in hamas, hell, in the
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  • In those dungeons under gaza.
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  • And, his story is riveting.
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  • It is powerful.
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  • It is inspiring, actually, and i want you to read it.
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  • It is absolutely a must read.
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  • So i want to get into part
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  • Two tonight because this is the story of how did he survive?
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  • And what about,
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  • What about that?
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  • What kind of conversations did he have after he got out
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  • With president trump
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  • In the oval office, as trump asked him to tell the story?
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  • What about when eli sharabi got invited
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  • Just weeks after being released?
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  • What did he say to the un security council?
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  • It was fascinating.
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  • I watched that entire, speech that was so powerful.
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  • And at ten downing street, when eli sharabi meets
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  • The british prime minister
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  • Tonight, part two of our exclusive sit down
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  • Interview with eli sharabi on the rosenberg report,
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  • Let's talk about what you actually endured, like
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  • How much did you weigh when you got captured
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  • And how much did you weigh when you got out?
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  • October 7th 23.
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  • I was more than 70 kilos.
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  • And the day i was released, to the hospital on february 25th,
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  • I was 44 kilos.
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  • It's almost half your body. yes.
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  • And you're not like, a huge guy.
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  • I yes, i believe another month or two.
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  • In the same conditions, same starvation,
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  • I probably would say, that was for sure.
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  • It was obvious to everybody.
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  • What were they feeding you?
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  • It was a bowl of pasta.
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  • A bowl of rice or bowl of rice
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  • Or, one and a half piece of bread a day.
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  • There was a there's a point at which you're getting like,
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  • Whatever, you're getting very little,
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  • But you're getting it twice a day. yes.
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  • But there's a point in which the, the,
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  • The captors, the terrorists tell you something,
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  • And they, they take away your second. yes.
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  • They said, you know, on it was on july 24th,
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  • They arrived to our, room and said,
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  • From now on, you know, i'm going to move from one form to male.
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  • We're going to reduce it to one meal a day.
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  • Because, you know, the israeli doesn't understand,
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  • And the prisoners are still suffering in israel.
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  • We've tried there's a.
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  • Specific decision that, yes. israeli.
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  • Now, security minister ben-gvir.
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  • Yes, has decided to feed the palestinian prisoners
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  • In israeli prisons.
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  • Less.
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  • Yes. and so hamas
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  • Decides, okay, well, then we'll do the same. yes.
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  • Yeah.
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  • So we ate one meal a day, since that day
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  • For 180 days, more than six months,
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  • It was, it was awful.
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  • We begged for food.
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  • At one point. you.
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  • I don't want to say you faked it.
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  • You but you you literally plan, and i can operation
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  • With your fellow,
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  • Hostages where you're going to cut yourself with a razor
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  • To be bleeding. yes.
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  • And then they're going
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  • To take you
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  • Into another room to take care of you,
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  • And then you're going to collapse
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  • To make them think that you're going to die.
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  • And and they need to feed you more.
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  • Is that right?
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  • We start to, you know, not feeling really good.
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  • Very dizzy.
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  • And and just it i need to do something to change
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  • It, and it has to be something visual, that it will shock them.
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  • So i just i took this blade and cut myself
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  • In my eyebrow and let the blood to be on my face
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  • As to go to the bathroom.
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  • Pretend i'm fainting in this corridor in the tunnel.
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  • And it helped us for one week.
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  • They gave us, a half pita bread, a day more.
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  • And it was great for us because we could keep this half
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  • Pita bread for the night.
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  • And it was, it helped us not to wake up every half
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  • An hour from starving, you know, from hunger and, but but.
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  • Only for. a week.
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  • Only for a week. only for a week.
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  • But again, it was a small victory.
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  • It was another small victory, in this,
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  • You know, surviving period, for 491 days, you keep,
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  • Taking as much as you can, you know, for to survive.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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  • What exactly?
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  • Eli sharabi tell president trump in the oval office
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  • After he was released from 491 days in hamas hell.
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  • And what gave him the inner strength to survive?
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  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after the break.
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  • Right after the break.
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  • There was a time you describe in the book where
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  • Something must have happened to one of the captors
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  • Families, perhaps,
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  • And he comes in and he just started
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  • Beating you and kicking you.
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  • He broke my ribs.
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  • He was step on me. it was kicking me.
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  • One of the one of the young guys tries to shield you by that.
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  • No, no, i, i, you know, try to protect me and ask him to stop.
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  • And he stopped after, like, 40s, one minute, i don't know.
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  • And, i couldn't breathe properly
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  • For 2 or 3 months, and i couldn't stand on my own.
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  • I needed, my fellow hostages help to go to the bathroom.
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  • You also describe in the book
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  • The plumbing
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  • In the bathroom of the toilet, starts to not work.
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  • It gets clogged.
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  • And now you've got raw sewage coming out.
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  • Everything stinks, of course.
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  • And then you've got worms starting to grow all around you.
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  • And they're on your toothbrushes and can you describe
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  • Would you describe that?
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  • Because i don't think people understand the
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  • Exactly what you were really going.
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  • I mean, it's bad enough to be away
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  • From your family in a tunnel.
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  • You can barely breathe now you're
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  • Your ribs are broken, you've been kicked, beaten.
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  • But now that just the stench and the filth,
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  • You only had a even a bucket of water once a month
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  • Or so every six weeks.
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  • Every six weeks
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  • We had a shower with, half a bucket of cold water.
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  • And the hygiene. you said, are you right?
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  • I didn't know how filthy the human body could be.
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  • Yes. it was awful.
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  • The hygienic conditions were,
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  • Awful.
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  • And, you know, it was one of the risks
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  • In this town is that for our health.
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  • Some of your fellow, brothers
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  • In in captivity, they start getting diarrhea.
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  • Fever and high fever and things like that.
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  • And it was, it was a high risk, and we told them about that,
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  • That you can die from that.
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  • But for me, i think what everybody's watching
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  • Is asking at the heart of it.
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  • How did you survive?
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  • And i want to ask you about i want you to ask you
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  • Two questions.
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  • First, one of your, there's a group of,
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  • Hostages that come in just for a few days,
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  • And one of them has become very famous here in israel also.
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  • I mean, they are, but has almost like this maxim, this proverb.
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  • I want you to share that with everybody,
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  • Because it's sort of the way you were living anyway.
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  • But he sort of crystallizes in the sentence.
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  • Let's start there.
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  • What was it that, that hirsch said to you?
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  • He just gave us words to our our behavior,
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  • And it was amazing.
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  • Was it was this standard.
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  • He defined in a sense what your, your internal philosophy was,
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  • Which was...
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  • If you have a “why” you can bear any “how” and,
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  • If you have a why if you,
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  • If you know why you're trying to survive. yes.
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  • And you can survive. what, what is important.
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  • So why is this so important for us to,
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  • You know, to him, you know, to stay alive?
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  • And we just,
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  • We all talked about our families,
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  • You know, and it's enough.
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  • It's enough to do anything you can do to survive.
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  • You want to see them again?
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  • Now, talk a little bit about hersh,
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  • Because he and the group of hersh, goldberg, cohen.
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  • He had lost an arm.
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  • Yes, because he'd been in, the music festival in nova
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  • And had been part of, like, the one of his friends had been
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  • They the
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  • The terrorist would throw in a grenade,
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  • The guy would catch it and, like, throw it back.
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  • But in the end, they pulled it, held it. yes.
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  • And then threw it at the end, killing the that lead guy
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  • And then blowing off part of hersh's arm.
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  • This is a these guys are heroes. yes.
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  • Oh, i know, i know shapiro and goldberg, friends.
  • 00:11:30.516 --> 00:11:35.387
  • Was was
  • 00:11:35.621 --> 00:11:36.889
  • Amazing, but unfortunately they killed him.
  • 00:11:36.889 --> 00:11:40.559
  • And then they start to kill anyone in this shelter.
  • 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:44.196
  • And only a few of them will survive.
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  • One of them is hersh.
  • 00:11:47.766 --> 00:11:50.102
  • That one of the grenade,
  • 00:11:50.102 --> 00:11:52.004
  • Blows, and,
  • 00:11:52.004 --> 00:11:54.773
  • It was amazing. amazing. and they.
  • 00:11:54.773 --> 00:11:56.842
  • And they guess that group,
  • 00:11:56.842 --> 00:11:58.210
  • I think there were three of them,
  • 00:11:58.210 --> 00:12:00.112
  • That move get moved into your tunnel
  • 00:12:00.112 --> 00:12:01.713
  • For just a few days,
  • 00:12:01.713 --> 00:12:02.781
  • And you guys get to talk, and you're trying to.
  • 00:12:02.781 --> 00:12:05.083
  • Yeah, understand each other.
  • 00:12:05.083 --> 00:12:06.385
  • Except for hersh it was three of them.
  • 00:12:06.385 --> 00:12:10.589
  • And they were very, very surprised to see
  • 00:12:10.589 --> 00:12:13.192
  • After 52 days that hirsch was alive, in these tunnels
  • 00:12:13.192 --> 00:12:17.496
  • And just start to cry and, they thanked him that, you know,
  • 00:12:17.496 --> 00:12:23.035
  • That's him and his friend,
  • 00:12:23.602 --> 00:12:25.270
  • You know, helped them to survive.
  • 00:12:26.004 --> 00:12:28.040
  • And they all talked about what, when they are going to released
  • 00:12:28.040 --> 00:12:31.643
  • Go to the dentist, and they'll shapiro as, for,
  • 00:12:31.643 --> 00:12:34.313
  • Family to say thank you that her son saved them.
  • 00:12:34.313 --> 00:12:39.051
  • Saved them.
  • 00:12:39.384 --> 00:12:40.652
  • And they and they get moved out of your tunnel
  • 00:12:40.652 --> 00:12:43.822
  • And you think,
  • 00:12:43.822 --> 00:12:44.923
  • Okay, well, he's wounded these guys are like, okay,
  • 00:12:44.923 --> 00:12:47.926
  • So they're
  • 00:12:47.926 --> 00:12:48.961
  • They're going to be released in the next round,
  • 00:12:48.961 --> 00:12:50.963
  • And you're already assuming for months they're home, safe.
  • 00:12:50.963 --> 00:12:54.399
  • 14 months.
  • 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:55.200
  • We believe they're home and safe.
  • 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.269
  • When did you learn
  • 00:12:57.269 --> 00:12:58.637
  • That they actually were murdered in another tunnel?
  • 00:12:58.637 --> 00:13:00.839
  • Four days before my release.
  • 00:13:00.839 --> 00:13:02.341
  • We met your husband, tommy,
  • 00:13:02.341 --> 00:13:03.575
  • That he used to watch television for once a week.
  • 00:13:03.575 --> 00:13:06.511
  • And he told us demand or,
  • 00:13:06.511 --> 00:13:09.548
  • That we didn't we we didn't watch anything.
  • 00:13:09.548 --> 00:13:12.117
  • So he told us.
  • 00:13:12.117 --> 00:13:13.518
  • He was in a tunnel where some captain, were watching tv and.
  • 00:13:13.518 --> 00:13:17.856
  • Yes. no,
  • 00:13:17.856 --> 00:13:19.024
  • That they let him once a week.
  • 00:13:19.625 --> 00:13:21.293
  • They let them actually.
  • 00:13:21.293 --> 00:13:22.094
  • Yeah. to watch the news. okay.
  • 00:13:22.094 --> 00:13:23.462
  • So he knew everything about the war.
  • 00:13:23.462 --> 00:13:25.330
  • He knew about the hamas leadership that had been,
  • 00:13:25.330 --> 00:13:28.567
  • Been killed by the israeli idea.
  • 00:13:28.567 --> 00:13:30.535
  • Oh that's right. and he starts sort of updating you.
  • 00:13:30.535 --> 00:13:33.205
  • Updating us about hezbollah, about nasrallah and
  • 00:13:33.205 --> 00:13:36.642
  • Sinwar had been murdered...
  • 00:13:37.242 --> 00:13:39.912
  • And then we told him about that,
  • 00:13:39.912 --> 00:13:41.780
  • Our friends been released 14 months ago.
  • 00:13:41.780 --> 00:13:44.182
  • And he just took a breath and just to let us know that,
  • 00:13:44.182 --> 00:13:48.820
  • They didn't make it
  • 00:13:49.288 --> 00:13:50.355
  • And they would have been murdered ten months later
  • 00:13:50.355 --> 00:13:53.692
  • In other tunnel with other, another,
  • 00:13:53.692 --> 00:13:57.162
  • Three hostages and we them we wanted to show up.
  • 00:13:57.162 --> 00:14:02.100
  • Yeah.
  • 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:02.868
  • And a day after that,
  • 00:14:02.868 --> 00:14:04.603
  • They let me know about my, my brother as well.
  • 00:14:04.603 --> 00:14:08.040
  • Yes. that was kidnap as well on october 7th
  • 00:14:08.040 --> 00:14:11.443
  • And been killed and,
  • 00:14:11.443 --> 00:14:13.445
  • That this,
  • 00:14:13.745 --> 00:14:15.948
  • Commander from hamas was very happy to announce me that,
  • 00:14:15.948 --> 00:14:20.285
  • And then it's just two days or three days later
  • 00:14:21.286 --> 00:14:23.822
  • That then you find out your.
  • 00:14:23.822 --> 00:14:25.090
  • Yes. about my family. yes. about you.
  • 00:14:25.090 --> 00:14:27.392
  • So going back to this, this sort of this, statement by,
  • 00:14:27.392 --> 00:14:32.531
  • By hersh, this idea, if you have a “why”,
  • 00:14:32.531 --> 00:14:35.067
  • Then you can survive any “how.”
  • 00:14:35.067 --> 00:14:36.902
  • Yes. so.
  • 00:14:36.902 --> 00:14:40.105
  • I think for a certainly for christians who were praying,
  • 00:14:40.105 --> 00:14:42.641
  • I mean, millions and millions and millions and millions
  • 00:14:42.641 --> 00:14:45.978
  • Of christians
  • 00:14:46.345 --> 00:14:47.312
  • In the united states and all over the world,
  • 00:14:47.312 --> 00:14:48.513
  • Just praying and praying and believing.
  • 00:14:48.513 --> 00:14:50.782
  • Okay, lord, you you can set the captives free.
  • 00:14:50.782 --> 00:14:53.585
  • Isaiah 61. this is what you do.
  • 00:14:53.585 --> 00:14:55.854
  • And just praying, praying when we need a miracle.
  • 00:14:55.854 --> 00:14:59.091
  • You're not a you don't describe yourself
  • 00:14:59.958 --> 00:15:01.493
  • As a religious person, but you're a person who you're
  • 00:15:01.493 --> 00:15:04.596
  • Very traditional and your jewish experience you.
  • 00:15:04.596 --> 00:15:07.933
  • I know you prayed in the in the tunnels.
  • 00:15:07.933 --> 00:15:10.068
  • I know all the blessing my by heart, you know.
  • 00:15:10.068 --> 00:15:12.437
  • So what was the
  • 00:15:12.437 --> 00:15:13.772
  • How would you describe i mean, do you believe in god?
  • 00:15:13.772 --> 00:15:17.009
  • Do you, were you praying?
  • 00:15:17.009 --> 00:15:20.245
  • I always believe in god.
  • 00:15:20.245 --> 00:15:22.047
  • People want to know what gave you the strength.
  • 00:15:22.047 --> 00:15:25.050
  • And it might not be god. i mean, i've talked to other,
  • 00:15:25.050 --> 00:15:28.220
  • Hostages that were released.
  • 00:15:28.820 --> 00:15:30.789
  • And they're like,
  • 00:15:30.789 --> 00:15:31.923
  • We're strict atheists and this hasn't changed for us.
  • 00:15:31.923 --> 00:15:34.960
  • That's fine. yeah.
  • 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.828
  • But for me,
  • 00:15:36.828 --> 00:15:37.929
  • I always believe god.
  • 00:15:37.929 --> 00:15:39.931
  • We haven't been religious, in my life.
  • 00:15:39.931 --> 00:15:42.734
  • And you mean orthodox religious?
  • 00:15:42.734 --> 00:15:44.569
  • Yes, yes, but all four of us weren't religious.
  • 00:15:44.569 --> 00:15:49.374
  • And these praying every day
  • 00:15:49.374 --> 00:15:52.778
  • And especially on friday,
  • 00:15:53.345 --> 00:15:55.814
  • They say all these blessings on,
  • 00:15:55.814 --> 00:15:59.418
  • You know, usually on
  • 00:15:59.885 --> 00:16:01.787
  • Usually it's on wine, but it's, we are blessed for water.
  • 00:16:01.787 --> 00:16:05.190
  • Water? yes.
  • 00:16:05.190 --> 00:16:06.458
  • And we kept a quarter of
  • 00:16:06.458 --> 00:16:07.959
  • The bread just to preserve the prayer of the food.
  • 00:16:07.959 --> 00:16:10.195
  • Yeah.
  • 00:16:10.195 --> 00:16:10.762
  • And, you know, to say
  • 00:16:10.762 --> 00:16:12.497
  • Some prayers for my mother, my sisters, my wife.
  • 00:16:12.497 --> 00:16:16.168
  • It was amazing for us.
  • 00:16:16.635 --> 00:16:18.170
  • It gave us all a lot of strength.
  • 00:16:18.170 --> 00:16:20.939
  • And, you know, in captivity, in this life,
  • 00:16:20.939 --> 00:16:24.142
  • Something like that very extreme that's happening to you.
  • 00:16:24.142 --> 00:16:27.212
  • You try to find any source that give you, strength
  • 00:16:27.212 --> 00:16:31.516
  • And faith in god was one of them.
  • 00:16:31.516 --> 00:16:34.786
  • And it was amazing for us.
  • 00:16:34.786 --> 00:16:37.222
  • And, you know, in 491 days, i probably seen the deaths
  • 00:16:37.222 --> 00:16:43.895
  • At least ten times.
  • 00:16:44.362 --> 00:16:45.864
  • And every time in every junction of that,
  • 00:16:45.864 --> 00:16:49.167
  • You know, i was alive in the end,
  • 00:16:49.167 --> 00:16:52.104
  • And i,
  • 00:16:52.104 --> 00:16:53.371
  • I believe if i have something like private protection.
  • 00:16:53.371 --> 00:16:57.142
  • I don't know, why.
  • 00:16:57.142 --> 00:16:58.043
  • Do you believe that god
  • 00:16:58.043 --> 00:17:00.011
  • Protected and rescued you, or is that a little too concrete?
  • 00:17:00.011 --> 00:17:04.116
  • I believe something protected me
  • 00:17:04.116 --> 00:17:06.418
  • I want to believe that.
  • 00:17:06.418 --> 00:17:07.619
  • And it was amazing for me that give me strength
  • 00:17:07.619 --> 00:17:10.489
  • And anything you can can get stressed from.
  • 00:17:10.489 --> 00:17:13.258
  • That's great.
  • 00:17:13.258 --> 00:17:14.326
  • Someone can get strength.
  • 00:17:14.326 --> 00:17:15.460
  • Just all
  • 00:17:15.460 --> 00:17:16.328
  • For just thinking about his family,
  • 00:17:16.328 --> 00:17:17.562
  • About his friends, about about his life.
  • 00:17:17.562 --> 00:17:20.198
  • Whatever. it's make it. that's great.
  • 00:17:20.198 --> 00:17:22.734
  • So it was one of the things and it was amazing for us.
  • 00:17:22.734 --> 00:17:26.538
  • You know, even in this 180 days that we were starving
  • 00:17:26.538 --> 00:17:31.877
  • Day by day, waiting more than 24 hours to go to the next meal.
  • 00:17:31.877 --> 00:17:36.948
  • They tried to bribe us way.
  • 00:17:37.549 --> 00:17:39.084
  • When? when i went to the, toilet.
  • 00:17:39.084 --> 00:17:41.853
  • And then in the night, they tried to give us,
  • 00:17:41.853 --> 00:17:45.390
  • Biscuits, half a biscuit or something like that,
  • 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:47.859
  • And to bribe us with this food just to say,
  • 00:17:47.859 --> 00:17:51.363
  • Some sentences from the koran, and we said to them,
  • 00:17:51.363 --> 00:17:55.300
  • Well, we're not religious, and we didn't
  • 00:17:55.300 --> 00:17:57.802
  • We didn't want to do that because we were jewish.
  • 00:17:57.802 --> 00:17:59.938
  • But and we said to them,
  • 00:17:59.938 --> 00:18:01.173
  • We're not religious, so please, we don't want to do that.
  • 00:18:01.173 --> 00:18:03.775
  • And keep your food for yourself.
  • 00:18:03.775 --> 00:18:05.977
  • No problem.
  • 00:18:05.977 --> 00:18:07.112
  • And it was very logical, very, very tough to do that.
  • 00:18:07.112 --> 00:18:10.615
  • You just want to eat.
  • 00:18:10.615 --> 00:18:11.750
  • You want to eat any crumb on an on the floor?
  • 00:18:11.750 --> 00:18:14.486
  • No problem.
  • 00:18:14.486 --> 00:18:16.221
  • But we needed to refuse.
  • 00:18:16.221 --> 00:18:17.622
  • And it was another small victory for us, for the unity of us.
  • 00:18:17.622 --> 00:18:21.560
  • And it was amazing.
  • 00:18:21.560 --> 00:18:24.930
  • We only have a few minutes.
  • 00:18:25.530 --> 00:18:28.200
  • I've heard you on a series of interviews and podcasts
  • 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.336
  • And people said, are you angry?
  • 00:18:31.336 --> 00:18:36.041
  • And you keep saying, i'm not angry at hamas.
  • 00:18:36.041 --> 00:18:39.477
  • I'm not angry at national security minister.
  • 00:18:39.477 --> 00:18:43.181
  • Ben gvir that...
  • 00:18:43.582 --> 00:18:44.783
  • I'm not mad
  • 00:18:44.783 --> 00:18:48.253
  • At the prime minister.
  • 00:18:48.253 --> 00:18:51.489
  • Is that what you felt then?
  • 00:18:51.489 --> 00:18:52.824
  • Are you do feel different.
  • 00:18:52.824 --> 00:18:53.959
  • And i'm not trying to get i don't know what,
  • 00:18:53.959 --> 00:18:55.493
  • But it was so shocking. every single interviewer
  • 00:18:55.493 --> 00:18:58.163
  • Has said, how could you not be angry?
  • 00:18:58.163 --> 00:19:00.365
  • Like what's going on inside of you?
  • 00:19:00.365 --> 00:19:02.033
  • So my therapist said to me, i probably am angry.
  • 00:19:02.033 --> 00:19:05.370
  • I'm trying not to deal with any negative emotions.
  • 00:19:05.370 --> 00:19:09.341
  • Otherwise i could not move on with my life.
  • 00:19:09.341 --> 00:19:12.277
  • And i want to move on.
  • 00:19:12.277 --> 00:19:13.545
  • I want to rebuild my life.
  • 00:19:13.545 --> 00:19:15.280
  • As i said, i love life and i don't feel
  • 00:19:15.280 --> 00:19:17.515
  • I have any privilege to stay in bed and cry all day
  • 00:19:17.515 --> 00:19:20.719
  • After my family and friends stop their life
  • 00:19:20.719 --> 00:19:23.955
  • And voting for me, you know, and vote for me for 500 days.
  • 00:19:23.955 --> 00:19:28.393
  • That's amazing thing that you are.
  • 00:19:29.127 --> 00:19:31.463
  • So, you know,
  • 00:19:31.463 --> 00:19:33.365
  • Meaningful to other people
  • 00:19:33.365 --> 00:19:35.533
  • And you cannot, you know, stay in bed and be depressed.
  • 00:19:35.533 --> 00:19:39.738
  • You could... you could probably have, but
  • 00:19:39.738 --> 00:19:43.041
  • I choose not to, you know, i choose not to do that.
  • 00:19:43.041 --> 00:19:46.478
  • I don't feel i█ve honored in this behavior,
  • 00:19:46.478 --> 00:19:50.515
  • My wife, my daughters and my brother.
  • 00:19:50.515 --> 00:19:53.752
  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
  • 00:19:54.619 --> 00:19:57.155
  • When he was finally released from gaza, what did eli
  • 00:19:57.155 --> 00:20:00.825
  • Sharabi want to say to president trump in the oval office?
  • 00:20:00.825 --> 00:20:04.396
  • What did he want to say to the u.n.
  • 00:20:04.396 --> 00:20:06.131
  • Security council?
  • 00:20:06.131 --> 00:20:07.732
  • And what does he want to say to evangelical christians
  • 00:20:07.732 --> 00:20:10.835
  • Who prayed so faithfully for his relief?
  • 00:20:10.835 --> 00:20:13.738
  • Don't miss his answers.
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  • When the rosenberg report continues on tbn
  • 00:20:15.073 --> 00:20:18.109
  • Right after the break.
  • 00:20:18.109 --> 00:20:21.004
  • Right after the break.
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  • Let's close on president trump.
  • 00:20:25.053 --> 00:20:26.788
  • You signed a copy of your book to him.
  • 00:20:26.788 --> 00:20:29.290
  • But even before that, you were you were
  • 00:20:29.290 --> 00:20:31.092
  • You were with him in the oval office.
  • 00:20:31.092 --> 00:20:32.727
  • What did you say to him?
  • 00:20:32.727 --> 00:20:34.262
  • What did he say to you?
  • 00:20:34.262 --> 00:20:36.331
  • And i'm not trying to be political.
  • 00:20:36.331 --> 00:20:37.598
  • I just know this is this is your life.
  • 00:20:37.598 --> 00:20:39.467
  • You're not a political person that i'm aware of, but...
  • 00:20:39.467 --> 00:20:42.870
  • For me, just wanted to say that i'm grateful
  • 00:20:42.870 --> 00:20:45.807
  • To him and to president trump and to mr.
  • 00:20:45.807 --> 00:20:49.210
  • Witkoff that secure my release and it was amazing
  • 00:20:49.210 --> 00:20:53.648
  • To understand what they've done, for us
  • 00:20:53.648 --> 00:20:56.718
  • And to release us and, it was amazing.
  • 00:20:56.718 --> 00:21:00.488
  • And it was i want
  • 00:21:00.488 --> 00:21:01.556
  • Just wanted to say to them, thank you very much.
  • 00:21:01.556 --> 00:21:03.791
  • And after this visit,
  • 00:21:03.791 --> 00:21:06.194
  • That was very meaningful to
  • 00:21:06.794 --> 00:21:08.529
  • Everybody that was, you know, participated that,
  • 00:21:08.529 --> 00:21:11.899
  • He asked from his stuff, that's in the un,
  • 00:21:11.899 --> 00:21:15.370
  • To give me time and, security council to speak.
  • 00:21:16.304 --> 00:21:19.207
  • I watched the i watched. your and it was a speech.
  • 00:21:19.207 --> 00:21:21.576
  • Amazing. 20 minutes.
  • 00:21:21.576 --> 00:21:22.977
  • The, with very hostile, people around, for israel
  • 00:21:22.977 --> 00:21:28.783
  • And and to speak there for 20 minutes
  • 00:21:28.783 --> 00:21:32.520
  • And to show, the photos of my family and my brother
  • 00:21:32.520 --> 00:21:36.824
  • And alon, and,
  • 00:21:36.824 --> 00:21:38.960
  • It was very, very meaningful for me.
  • 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.262
  • And it was powerful and just,
  • 00:21:41.262 --> 00:21:45.400
  • You know, you cannot argue with someone that's been there.
  • 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:50.004
  • They can argue with ambassadors and politicians,
  • 00:21:50.004 --> 00:21:53.341
  • But not with me,
  • 00:21:53.341 --> 00:21:54.642
  • Because i've been there, i've seen everything,
  • 00:21:54.642 --> 00:21:56.744
  • And i've been with them for 491 days.
  • 00:21:56.744 --> 00:22:00.181
  • I was held by hamas,
  • 00:22:00.181 --> 00:22:02.850
  • Very cruel organization,
  • 00:22:03.384 --> 00:22:06.187
  • That doing nothing to help his family,
  • 00:22:06.187 --> 00:22:09.056
  • His health and population and actually
  • 00:22:09.056 --> 00:22:12.460
  • Stealing from them, their food and all this humanitarian aid.
  • 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:16.731
  • We've seen dozens of boxes coming in every week.
  • 00:22:16.731 --> 00:22:20.601
  • Every from a week unwra.
  • 00:22:20.601 --> 00:22:21.836
  • From a un on behalf of the u.n..
  • 00:22:21.836 --> 00:22:24.439
  • To and
  • 00:22:24.439 --> 00:22:25.339
  • And the terrorists are eating that food
  • 00:22:25.339 --> 00:22:28.309
  • In front of you.
  • 00:22:28.709 --> 00:22:29.777
  • Five times a day, and they tell us how much they,
  • 00:22:29.777 --> 00:22:33.614
  • Kids or, people outside don't have food,
  • 00:22:33.614 --> 00:22:36.484
  • But they eat five times a day and we one time a day and,
  • 00:22:36.484 --> 00:22:42.089
  • That was awful.
  • 00:22:42.457 --> 00:22:43.591
  • Just to see
  • 00:22:43.591 --> 00:22:44.725
  • How much they don't care about their own population.
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  • Thank you for going to the u.n.
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  • And speaking with the u.n. security.
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  • Very important for having the courage and the
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  • Again, you could have said, i don't want public attention.
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  • You're not a public person. you were never famous before.
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  • You don't
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  • Seem to want to be famous, but you seem to have said he
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  • You seem to have purpose.
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  • This is my mission. this is. this is what?
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  • These are the cards that you've got dealt
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  • And, you're playing them.
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  • Very effectively.
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  • Doing what
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  • I don't think you seem to really want to do, with respect.
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  • I mean, even here, you're like,
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  • Hasn't everybody already heard the story?
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  • And and the truth is, no, you've told it many times,
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  • But it's a story that not everyone has heard.
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  • And i think it's very important.
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  • You know, i wasn't elected by anyone.
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  • And don't represent anyone.
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  • But for me to join this battle of the sharabi
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  • Family, first of all, to bring back my brother's
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  • Body home, to bury him, that his wife
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  • And daughters and my mother have a grave to cry on.
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  • And it was very, very important for us
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  • And, of course, to speak for the other hostages
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  • That can't speak for themselves.
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  • When 50m underground in the tunnels,
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  • And to help to bring them back to their families.
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  • It was amazing mission for me.
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  • I didn't see that.
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  • For me, it as a job or something that i can do.
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  • I was happy to do that.
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  • And, i went to all prime ministers and,
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  • The british prime minister.
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  • Israeli pm, parliament members.
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  • I met all of them and the u.n.
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  • And so i did all i could to
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  • Help them and i'm sure other people did as well.
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  • And, you know, since i was released
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  • And i've seen how much the israeli people
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  • And the jewish around the world
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  • And christian as well around the world,
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  • That praying for the hostages
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  • And support the hostage families, it was very,
  • 00:24:42.677 --> 00:24:46.414
  • Moving for me was, well, my heart
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  • And all this solidarity with the israelis, it's amazing.
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  • So i thank each one of you.
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  • I've seen them. just take them personally.
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  • Thank you very much.
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  • Eli thank you. we're with you.
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  • We've been with you from the beginning
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  • And it's important that you tell the story.
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  • Thank you for what you're doing.
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  • I pray god will give you the strength
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  • To keep going and to after wisdom, right?
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  • At some point,
  • 00:25:10.905 --> 00:25:12.139
  • Your life is going to shift from being a survivor and a witness
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  • To a new life, trying to figure out you briefly dated.
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  • You're trying to figure out what what is your what,
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  • What can your new life look like?
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  • I don't envy that,
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  • But we're praying that the lord would really
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  • Bless and guide you.
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  • Thank you very much. thank you. i appreciate it.
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  • Wow, what an honor
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  • To sit down and spend nearly an hour
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  • With a man who's been through this and,
  • 00:25:40.001 --> 00:25:43.404
  • You know, we followed, his story,
  • 00:25:44.138 --> 00:25:47.842
  • As it unfolded, but
  • 00:25:48.309 --> 00:25:49.844
  • And i read the book cover to cover, but to
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  • But to actually spend time with him, was amazing.
  • 00:25:52.013 --> 00:25:55.016
  • I he does not consider himself a hero in other interviews.
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  • He's a no, no, no, i'm not a hero.
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  • Israeli soldiers are a hero.
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  • All the israeli families that push, push, push for a deal.
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  • President trump is a hero. steve witkoff.
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  • These are heroes.
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  • I'm not a hero. well, respectfully,
  • 00:26:07.528 --> 00:26:09.497
  • I don't agree with him. he is a hero.
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  • He did survive.
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  • He did encourage the younger guys that were hostages with him
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  • To stay focused and to and and keep fighting to live
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  • And to survive. and they did.
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  • Most of them did.
  • 00:26:23.944 --> 00:26:25.246
  • And, i just i'm so grateful for eli.
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  • I'm so grateful for this book.
  • 00:26:27.848 --> 00:26:29.316
  • And i want to encourage you, please
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  • Pray that the lord would show grace and mercy to eli
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  • And his family, that the lord would bring
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  • A physical healing to him as he continues to recover
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  • Emotional healing, as he continues to recover,
  • 00:26:40.995 --> 00:26:43.764
  • And spiritual healing,
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  • And that the lord would draw eli
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  • And his whole family and his friends
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  • To himself, the god of israel.
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  • And please keep praying for this type of healing
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  • And encouragement and mercy
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  • On every israeli hostage and their family,
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  • Every israeli soldier that has suffered and
  • 00:27:01.549 --> 00:27:04.018
  • Been traumatized by this war and on the palestinians as well.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Thank you so much for watching.
  • 00:27:08.689 --> 00:27:09.857
  • Please, i would encourage you to go buy a copy of this
  • 00:27:09.857 --> 00:27:12.927
  • Book for yourself in hardcover or on audio and or an e-book,
  • 00:27:12.927 --> 00:27:18.766
  • And then buy them as presents for family and friends.
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  • Every single christian needs to know this story
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  • And to use it as an opportunity to understand better
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  • What happened, and to pray for everybody involved.
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  • Thank you so much for watching.
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  • That's all the time we have.
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  • Have a great week.
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  • As you walk with the lord and the power of his holy spirit.
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  • Keep praying for the peace of jerusalem
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  • And a new day in the middle east.
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  • Lord willing, i'll see you next week
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  • Right here on the rosenberg report.
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  • Stand with israel. stand with truth.
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