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Joel Rosenberg: Released Hamas Hostage Speaks Out | The Rosenberg Report

November 20, 2025 | 29:33

Joel Rosenberg: Released Hamas Hostage Speaks Out | The Rosenberg Report
In this episode of The Rosenberg Report, Joel Rosenberg talks to 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 | The Rosenberg Report | November 20, 2025
  • Tonight on the rosenberg report,
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  • He was taken hostage on october 7th, dragged into gaza
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  • And spent 491 days trapped in hamas hell:
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  • Tortured, beaten, starved, with no idea
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  • Whether his wife
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  • And two daughters
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  • Had survived the brutal attack on their kibbutz.
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  • Now he's become the first hostage to write a memoir
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  • Bearing witness to his terrifying ordeal.
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  • It's a story he's recounted to world leaders at the un
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  • Security, to the british prime minister at ten downing street
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  • And to president trump in the oval office.
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  • And tonight, he shares it with us, a deeply
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  • Moving and powerful 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
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  • Report.
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  • This is a story
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  • That every single christian needs to hear.
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  • This is the story of eli sharabi, an israeli civilian
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  • Who was captured, brutalized, tortured in his home
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  • In kibbutz berri, right on the border of gaza
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  • On the morning of october 7th.
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  • Dragged into gaza, and he spent 491 days in hamas hell.
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  • Good evening, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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  • This is a story that every israeli knows, okay.
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  • Because eli sharabi not only became a major story
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  • With all the other hostages during the,
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  • Two years of this, the horror in gaza.
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  • But eli sharabi is the only israeli,
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  • Surviving, hostage to write a book.
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  • And this has become the fastest selling,
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  • Biggest selling, book in the history of modern israel.
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  • This has became a huge monster bestseller here.
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  • The book is called hostage.
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  • It is the only story of a survivor from the moment of,
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  • The the, hamas attack on the morning of october
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  • 7th, all the way through the 491 days
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  • Of his horrific and horrific, disgusting, terror ordeal.
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  • And then where does he go from here?
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  • The story has become huge here, but not only here.
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  • It's the book got translated into english,
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  • Became a big new york times bestseller in the united states.
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  • And yet most christians,
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  • Most evangelical christians, do not know the name eli sharabi
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  • And they don't know the book yet.
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  • But you must read it.
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  • I want to i i've read it from cover to cover.
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  • It was one of the most fascinating and terrifying
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  • And yet hopeful books that i've ever read.
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  • And i strongly encourage you to pick up a copy,
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  • In hardcover or on audio.
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  • And to read it or to listen to it.
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  • And tonight,
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  • You're going to get a story that eli sharbi shared
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  • In the oval office
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  • With president trump when trump invited him
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  • To come and meet with him.
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  • And sharabi thanks president trump
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  • For all that he did to set sharabi and the others free.
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  • This is a story to be told at the u.n.
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  • Security council
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  • Just weeks after his release,
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  • And he's begun to share it in the media.
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  • And tonight he sits down with the rosenberg
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  • Report for an exclusive interview.
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  • 491 days in hamas hell
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  • The story of eli sharabi.
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  • Eli, what an honor to meet you.
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  • Thank you very. much.
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  • I praise god that you are alive
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  • And it's an honor just to sit with you.
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  • I read the book cover to cover.
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  • It is so moving and i am encouraging every
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  • Christian in the world
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  • To read this book, to share this book,
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  • Because it's such an important story.
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  • In this first show, i just wanted to start with
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  • Who you are, what you suffered and what you lost.
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  • Okay, so you wake up at 629 on october 7th.
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  • You're getting messages.
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  • You're starting to hear rockets.
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  • What happens? what?
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  • Your world gets blown apart that day.
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  • Yeah, but we you know, we used to all these missiles,
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  • From time to time.
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  • And so we pick up the girls from the room to the safe room
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  • The other night, and,
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  • We just waited there.
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  • We were going to be in five minutes.
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  • Right?
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  • And a half an hour later,
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  • Was still been safe room because the alarm didn't stop.
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  • And there's.
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  • There was a message from the
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  • Emergency team of the kibbutz that says,
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  • That is a possibility that terrorist infiltrated
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  • Berri, so we need to stay in the
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  • Are you hearing automatic gunfire yet?
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  • Not yet, not yet. but. and then i thought.
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  • That must be a shock to read this.
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  • Yeah. it's it's it was what?
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  • It never happened. really? weirdness.
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  • And, said the girls, i don't know, but probably enough.
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  • And i will bring you. don't worry.
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  • It will be outside from here and we'll start our day.
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  • Let's continue and continue.
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  • And then the videos, you know, shown, on tv
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  • From sderot and then nova festival
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  • And we understood that, situations out of control.
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  • You're seeing the messages from fellow kibbutz members....
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  • Not to not. yeah.
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  • Just family and friends.
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  • That was very towards that time and said,
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  • We said to them, we are okay, don't worry. okay.
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  • And then after this, you know,
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  • Two hours in the safe room, we start to hear some gunfire.
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  • And, and we understood that, this many of terrorists
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  • In the kibbutz and this messages from the kids,
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  • Start to show, and just what's up?
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  • What's up?
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  • You mean neighbors?
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  • Neighbors in the battery and said that somebody shot dead.
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  • Somebody shot mom, our house is burning and things like that.
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  • And then we start to understand on to know that it's
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  • That on the way to our house as well.
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  • You made some decisions at this point as a couple. yes.
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  • What did you decide? yeah.
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  • We presume that i will, the kidnap, but,
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  • We're not going to fight with them.
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  • We better not to fight with them.
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  • We have no weapons in the house or something like that.
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  • So it was the best way to, protect
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  • The girls is not to fight and surrender. yes.
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  • And we presume that british passports.
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  • Leanne and the girls would protect them.
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  • Why did you presume that?
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  • Because, you know,
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  • The conflict is between the israelis and the palestinians,
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  • Or jewish and arabs or something like that?
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  • But they are not jewish. they are not israelis.
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  • The the i was,
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  • The british volunteer who come at like 20 years old
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  • And you guys had met
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  • She only planned to come for a few months. yes. right.
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  • And then you guys.
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  • We fell in love and we raised, with two daughters
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  • In the kibbutz, and it was amazing place,
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  • You know, a piece of heaven for us. and,
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  • Unfortunately, it's becoming a step too ahead.
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  • This day and,
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  • So they arrived,
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  • After four hours, we've been in a safe room.
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  • And the army didn't show up, that we we
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  • We presume that or we expected,
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  • So we were very disappointed that,
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  • The army didn't show and...
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  • It must have been bizarre, right?
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  • Like, it doesn't make any sense.
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  • Suddenly it was ten terrorist in their house, and,
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  • Two of them grabbed me.
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  • 3 or 4 of them grabbed the girls and to the kitchen area,
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  • And all the rest will be in the house and waited
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  • The and will get dressed because we were jump from our beds.
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  • Right.
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  • And they were terrified.
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  • Yeah.
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  • And the girls,
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  • I tried to calm them down and it was all calm in the house,
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  • And we were sure that our plans walking
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  • And 3 or 4 minutes later, understand arabic.
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  • So the commander of this unit of this,
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  • Terrorist,
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  • Told them to take me out of the house.
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  • So it was the moment i understood i'd been kidnaped
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  • And, just shouted the girls that to calm them down.
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  • I'll be back. yeah.
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  • And that was your last, last question? yes.
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  • Last communication. last time i've seen, you couldn't.
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  • Possibly have imagined,
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  • That you wouldn't see them.
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  • No. no.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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  • What exactly happened to eli sharabi once
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  • He was dragged into those hamas terror tunnels deep
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  • Under gaza, facing torture and terror.
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  • And what happened to eli's wife and two teenage daughters once
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  • They were ripped away from him
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  • On that horrific saturday morning of october 7th?
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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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  • Now you get taken into gaza.
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  • Yes. believing.
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  • Okay, it's bad, but they'll be safe. yes.
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  • And you got a hard
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  • Road ahead.
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  • I mean, literally you're you're being beaten.
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  • You're being dragged, you're being put in a car,
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  • Taken into gaza.
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  • What are you thinking?
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  • Are you thinking this is a temporary a few days?
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  • Are you thinking. i mean, you have.
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  • What are you thinking? what's here?
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  • What are your emotions at that point?
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  • First of all, on the way to the car,
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  • I've seen some, like, hundreds of terrorists in the,
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  • In this neighborhood or in our neighborhood,
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  • Just coming in and out from every house
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  • Celebrating, filming themselves,
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  • You know, joking and things like that.
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  • And i've seen that.
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  • And so understood the situation is bad.
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  • Well, understood. i'm not.
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  • I'm not on my own.
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  • I will not be, you know, at the, only hostage in gaza was.
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  • I was sure about that.
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  • And so i presume.
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  • Okay, something like that.
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  • You're not going to be in, in gaza,
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  • I presume it will be a months.
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  • Something like that.
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  • Unfortunately, it took 16 months to release me.
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  • 491. 491 days. yes.
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  • And some other, fellow who my fellow hostages were,
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  • More than 700 days.
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  • The first stop in gaza was in a mosque,
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  • The mob of civilians that outside of this mosque,
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  • To take me away from the
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  • From my, from.
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  • From my captors.
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  • You describe in the book several times,
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  • But in this time you were almost more scared.
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  • You were. you were more scared of the mob.
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  • It's what they would do to you.
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  • Hamas was scared.
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  • Hamas was scared?
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  • Yes.
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  • Because?
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  • Because they, you know,
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  • Hamas got an order to keep us safe.
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  • And because they want their prisoners back and...
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  • You're a pawn.
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  • You're an asset. i'm an asset? yeah.
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  • For them. yeah. for the civilians. i'm not.
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  • And just be. yes. they want to kill you.
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  • You describe fearing that they will just rip you apart.
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  • It was literally kids on top of me with their shoes.
  • 00:11:33.250 --> 00:11:36.887
  • You know, hitting me on my head.
  • 00:11:36.887 --> 00:11:38.622
  • Fortunately, the captors, succeeded to take me
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  • Into the mosque and interrogate me there, and,
  • 00:11:42.726 --> 00:11:46.930
  • And then we continued to another
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  • 3 or 4 stops to confuse the army.
  • 00:11:50.233 --> 00:11:53.336
  • And we arrived to a palestinian family house.
  • 00:11:53.336 --> 00:11:56.540
  • You know, and we've been there for the next 52 days.
  • 00:11:56.540 --> 00:12:01.511
  • This reading this part, it's thought,
  • 00:12:01.511 --> 00:12:05.248
  • Okay, it's not good. it but of all the other scenarios, yes.
  • 00:12:05.248 --> 00:12:09.886
  • It seemed the least bad that you were in i,
  • 00:12:09.886 --> 00:12:12.789
  • As a journalist, i was brought by the idf into khan yunis,
  • 00:12:12.789 --> 00:12:17.627
  • Into a newly discovered tunnel at that point.
  • 00:12:17.627 --> 00:12:20.263
  • And so i spent a day with a
  • 00:12:20.263 --> 00:12:22.365
  • Just a small group of other journalists
  • 00:12:22.365 --> 00:12:24.334
  • Going into tunnels, going into sinwar█s,
  • 00:12:24.334 --> 00:12:27.404
  • Private lair at that point.
  • 00:12:28.004 --> 00:12:29.873
  • So most people don't get a chance.
  • 00:12:29.873 --> 00:12:32.776
  • I don't know if a chance is the right word, but i got for
  • 00:12:32.776 --> 00:12:35.879
  • Just one day
  • 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:36.947
  • To feel how humid, how dark, how,
  • 00:12:37.681 --> 00:12:41.618
  • How filthy.
  • 00:12:41.952 --> 00:12:43.820
  • The corners were.
  • 00:12:43.820 --> 00:12:44.955
  • I went into a cage that
  • 00:12:44.955 --> 00:12:47.591
  • 12 israeli hostages were in.
  • 00:12:47.591 --> 00:12:49.392
  • But i also saw the living quarters of the terrorists.
  • 00:12:49.392 --> 00:12:52.395
  • And tile, beautiful tile work, beautiful bathrooms,
  • 00:12:52.395 --> 00:12:56.900
  • Kitchens, running water, electricity, gas.
  • 00:12:56.900 --> 00:13:00.303
  • Like they they didn't live badly for their choice of life.
  • 00:13:00.303 --> 00:13:04.174
  • But for the
  • 00:13:04.174 --> 00:13:07.110
  • For the israelis it was horrible.
  • 00:13:07.110 --> 00:13:08.678
  • So i have just just a little bit of a sense.
  • 00:13:08.678 --> 00:13:12.449
  • But for you being taken at 52 days mark
  • 00:13:12.449 --> 00:13:18.421
  • From what was, you know, you had fresh air, you,
  • 00:13:18.421 --> 00:13:22.225
  • You had a family, you were fed reasonably
  • 00:13:22.225 --> 00:13:25.061
  • Well compared to what happened.
  • 00:13:25.061 --> 00:13:26.730
  • You're not really being tortured or starved yet. yes.
  • 00:13:26.730 --> 00:13:30.400
  • And you have you describe in the book i,
  • 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:33.603
  • I've a very deep fear of ever being taken
  • 00:13:33.603 --> 00:13:36.406
  • Into those tunnels and suddenly you describe,
  • 00:13:36.406 --> 00:13:39.709
  • Oh my gosh, that's what exactly what's about to happen is.
  • 00:13:39.709 --> 00:13:43.513
  • That was yes, it was my worst nightmare.
  • 00:13:43.513 --> 00:13:47.550
  • Looked like the perfect grave.
  • 00:13:47.550 --> 00:13:49.452
  • I refused in the beginning to
  • 00:13:50.086 --> 00:13:52.689
  • To climb down and, oh, you.
  • 00:13:52.689 --> 00:13:56.126
  • Literally tell them no.
  • 00:13:56.126 --> 00:13:57.027
  • Yes. yes, and start to argue with them.
  • 00:13:57.027 --> 00:14:00.163
  • And but after 30, 40 seconds, they got upset with me,
  • 00:14:00.163 --> 00:14:03.800
  • Loaded their guns and pointed in my head.
  • 00:14:04.668 --> 00:14:08.038
  • And then i remember my promise to my girls
  • 00:14:08.038 --> 00:14:10.140
  • That they would come back and chose life again.
  • 00:14:10.140 --> 00:14:13.476
  • Let's let's stop at that point,
  • 00:14:14.110 --> 00:14:16.746
  • I want to go further as we have this conversation
  • 00:14:16.746 --> 00:14:19.416
  • About what you experienced,
  • 00:14:19.416 --> 00:14:20.717
  • That what you suffered in those tunnels.
  • 00:14:20.717 --> 00:14:22.953
  • But i also want to talk about what got ripped away from you.
  • 00:14:22.953 --> 00:14:25.155
  • When you talk about lian, your wife talk about,
  • 00:14:25.155 --> 00:14:28.325
  • Knowing that in your head.
  • 00:14:28.325 --> 00:14:29.292
  • Because i want i want our audience
  • 00:14:29.292 --> 00:14:32.629
  • Of christians who care very deeply, love
  • 00:14:32.629 --> 00:14:35.432
  • Israel and the jewish people very deeply.
  • 00:14:35.432 --> 00:14:37.934
  • They don't know you yet.
  • 00:14:37.934 --> 00:14:39.135
  • You're the most one of the most famous people in israel.
  • 00:14:39.135 --> 00:14:41.104
  • Now, your book is a huge, bestseller.
  • 00:14:41.104 --> 00:14:44.774
  • Because people want to.
  • 00:14:44.774 --> 00:14:46.576
  • They want their cravings know more.
  • 00:14:46.576 --> 00:14:48.845
  • How did you survive?
  • 00:14:48.845 --> 00:14:49.846
  • What happened to you? what?
  • 00:14:49.846 --> 00:14:51.614
  • But most christians, even though they follow the story overall,
  • 00:14:51.614 --> 00:14:54.951
  • They don't know you and they don't know
  • 00:14:54.951 --> 00:14:56.886
  • Lian or the girls.
  • 00:14:56.886 --> 00:14:58.388
  • And i think they need to.
  • 00:14:58.388 --> 00:15:00.256
  • Lian was very british proud woman.
  • 00:15:00.256 --> 00:15:03.593
  • Love a cup of tea.
  • 00:15:03.593 --> 00:15:04.928
  • And beer with her friends and we had a great life
  • 00:15:04.928 --> 00:15:09.766
  • Together, and that was, how many years were you married?
  • 00:15:09.766 --> 00:15:14.004
  • We've been married 23 years, and we've been together 28 years.
  • 00:15:14.004 --> 00:15:19.476
  • And it was an amazing time.
  • 00:15:19.476 --> 00:15:21.544
  • And i was very lucky to have her.
  • 00:15:21.544 --> 00:15:24.314
  • And she was immediately become israeli.
  • 00:15:24.314 --> 00:15:28.351
  • Not jewish, not jewish.
  • 00:15:28.852 --> 00:15:31.021
  • But after six months, she was in israel.
  • 00:15:31.021 --> 00:15:33.890
  • Yeah, she was israeli.
  • 00:15:33.890 --> 00:15:35.358
  • She knew the language and she was amazing.
  • 00:15:35.358 --> 00:15:38.695
  • She loved the kibuttz.
  • 00:15:39.162 --> 00:15:40.196
  • She loved her friends.
  • 00:15:40.196 --> 00:15:42.599
  • She got, you know, she missed the family.
  • 00:15:42.599 --> 00:15:44.968
  • That in england and in canada and and,
  • 00:15:44.968 --> 00:15:50.040
  • We raised two beautiful
  • 00:15:50.540 --> 00:15:52.142
  • Daughters, noya and yahel. and,
  • 00:15:52.142 --> 00:15:57.347
  • What can you tell me about them?
  • 00:15:57.981 --> 00:16:04.054
  • Noya was all heart and
  • 00:16:04.521 --> 00:16:07.557
  • She used to work
  • 00:16:07.957 --> 00:16:11.094
  • With autistic kids.
  • 00:16:11.094 --> 00:16:14.064
  • She used to volunteer, twice a week for three years,
  • 00:16:14.064 --> 00:16:18.201
  • Before that happened. and,
  • 00:16:18.768 --> 00:16:21.404
  • That was her passion.
  • 00:16:21.404 --> 00:16:24.174
  • And to have other people
  • 00:16:24.174 --> 00:16:26.009
  • And she was amazing.
  • 00:16:26.009 --> 00:16:29.012
  • She loved music.
  • 00:16:29.012 --> 00:16:31.781
  • We used to go to concerts, to israeli singers concerts.
  • 00:16:31.781 --> 00:16:35.585
  • And as a teenager.
  • 00:16:35.585 --> 00:16:37.253
  • Yes. 16 or so.
  • 00:16:37.253 --> 00:16:38.721
  • Amazing, amazing woman.
  • 00:16:38.721 --> 00:16:42.592
  • And yahel,
  • 00:16:42.892 --> 00:16:43.793
  • Yahel was a little boy.
  • 00:16:43.793 --> 00:16:47.063
  • She used to play football.
  • 00:16:47.630 --> 00:16:49.766
  • Passion. lot of energy. yes.
  • 00:16:49.766 --> 00:16:51.134
  • Loads of energy.
  • 00:16:51.134 --> 00:16:52.569
  • Like like just extreme things to do.
  • 00:16:52.569 --> 00:16:55.939
  • And it was just kind of skydiving.
  • 00:16:55.939 --> 00:16:58.575
  • Skydiving?
  • 00:16:58.575 --> 00:16:59.342
  • Skydiving for her birthday. yes.
  • 00:16:59.342 --> 00:17:00.877
  • And we were all terrified.
  • 00:17:00.877 --> 00:17:02.612
  • Just look at an idea.
  • 00:17:02.612 --> 00:17:05.748
  • That was only about a year or so.
  • 00:17:05.748 --> 00:17:07.784
  • A year before. yes.
  • 00:17:07.784 --> 00:17:08.718
  • And we waited for her just, you know, to...
  • 00:17:08.718 --> 00:17:12.689
  • You didn't jump with her? no, no. no way.
  • 00:17:12.689 --> 00:17:14.991
  • And she loved scuba diving, and she just finished
  • 00:17:14.991 --> 00:17:18.828
  • On august 23rd. her course.
  • 00:17:18.828 --> 00:17:21.764
  • And i've been doing a lot.
  • 00:17:21.764 --> 00:17:23.566
  • And we've promised each other to dive
  • 00:17:23.566 --> 00:17:25.635
  • In... to scuba diving in thailand.
  • 00:17:25.635 --> 00:17:28.872
  • And i think two months ago, i did it for her.
  • 00:17:29.806 --> 00:17:37.647
  • Yes...
  • 00:17:37.847 --> 00:17:40.750
  • Because when i read the book,
  • 00:17:40.750 --> 00:17:45.355
  • I will be honest,
  • 00:17:45.788 --> 00:17:47.724
  • I didn't go back to check the your story.
  • 00:17:47.724 --> 00:17:51.828
  • I wanted to read it through.
  • 00:17:51.828 --> 00:17:53.263
  • I thought i knew your story, but i,
  • 00:17:53.263 --> 00:17:55.231
  • You know, we've been dealing with 251 different people
  • 00:17:55.231 --> 00:17:58.468
  • And trying to know their stories
  • 00:17:58.468 --> 00:17:59.769
  • And what's going on with them and who. yes.
  • 00:17:59.769 --> 00:18:01.938
  • And i, i said, i'm not going to do any background.
  • 00:18:01.938 --> 00:18:04.574
  • I'm just going to read the book through as anybody would.
  • 00:18:04.574 --> 00:18:10.346
  • So i kept hoping
  • 00:18:10.747 --> 00:18:12.615
  • And i we get to the part where you find out
  • 00:18:12.615 --> 00:18:16.152
  • That you're going to be released and you have made this choice.
  • 00:18:16.152 --> 00:18:19.722
  • Well, first of all, you made a promise.
  • 00:18:19.722 --> 00:18:20.857
  • I'm going to come back. i'll be back.
  • 00:18:20.857 --> 00:18:22.759
  • You know, and then you make choices all the way along.
  • 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.828
  • I'm not going to give up.
  • 00:18:25.828 --> 00:18:26.796
  • I'm not going to sink into despair because...
  • 00:18:26.796 --> 00:18:30.500
  • Because lian and the girls, they need you,
  • 00:18:30.500 --> 00:18:33.369
  • And they don't know what your status is.
  • 00:18:33.369 --> 00:18:35.538
  • So you're like, i'm going to get back to them.
  • 00:18:35.538 --> 00:18:36.806
  • Whatever it takes, i'm going to get back to them. and,
  • 00:18:36.806 --> 00:18:41.044
  • And now you're finding out that you're going to be released.
  • 00:18:42.212 --> 00:18:46.049
  • Could you describe would you describe
  • 00:18:46.849 --> 00:18:49.986
  • The the literal release you're meeting a red
  • 00:18:50.887 --> 00:18:54.190
  • Cross representative.
  • 00:18:54.190 --> 00:18:55.458
  • Finally, nobody's ever, the red cross has never come to see you.
  • 00:18:55.458 --> 00:18:59.095
  • And you meet some israeli officers and social worker.
  • 00:18:59.095 --> 00:19:04.000
  • You're excited.
  • 00:19:04.367 --> 00:19:06.002
  • I was very excited.
  • 00:19:06.002 --> 00:19:07.136
  • It was a roller coaster emotion day.
  • 00:19:07.136 --> 00:19:09.672
  • An emotional day.
  • 00:19:09.672 --> 00:19:11.774
  • Because it should be my happiest day.
  • 00:19:11.774 --> 00:19:14.911
  • And since, you know, i was.
  • 00:19:14.911 --> 00:19:16.579
  • You're being released from.
  • 00:19:16.579 --> 00:19:17.347
  • Yeah. yes. for 491 days.
  • 00:19:17.347 --> 00:19:19.649
  • You just imagine this moment
  • 00:19:19.649 --> 00:19:22.185
  • Like you know, a happiest moment ever.
  • 00:19:22.185 --> 00:19:24.254
  • And i was very excited.
  • 00:19:24.254 --> 00:19:25.989
  • I literally dreamt of this moment,
  • 00:19:25.989 --> 00:19:27.657
  • What it's going to be like.
  • 00:19:27.657 --> 00:19:28.925
  • And actually, you know, in this ceremony,
  • 00:19:28.925 --> 00:19:32.161
  • Just before where we, where we transfer from.
  • 00:19:33.096 --> 00:19:35.798
  • Hamas ceremony.
  • 00:19:35.798 --> 00:19:37.500
  • You know, there they ask me how i feel that
  • 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.535
  • I'm going to meet my wife and my daughters and,
  • 00:19:39.535 --> 00:19:43.206
  • And of course, i
  • 00:19:43.606 --> 00:19:44.240
  • Was very happy about that.
  • 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:47.410
  • Excited about that.
  • 00:19:47.410 --> 00:19:49.479
  • And the moment i arrived to the idf
  • 00:19:49.479 --> 00:19:52.415
  • And the social worker, approached me and
  • 00:19:52.415 --> 00:19:56.019
  • Introduced herself and said to me
  • 00:19:56.719 --> 00:19:59.789
  • That my mother and my sister are waiting for me.
  • 00:19:59.789 --> 00:20:03.359
  • And i told her just to bring lian in because...
  • 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.864
  • Did that seem like a strange sentence to you?
  • 00:20:07.864 --> 00:20:11.567
  • You went too quickly?
  • 00:20:12.068 --> 00:20:13.036
  • I didn't really want to believe what it was.
  • 00:20:13.036 --> 00:20:15.905
  • Of course, it was all quickly for me.
  • 00:20:15.905 --> 00:20:18.741
  • And i said to her, just bring me lian.
  • 00:20:18.741 --> 00:20:21.577
  • And my daughter's.
  • 00:20:21.577 --> 00:20:22.812
  • And she said, well, your mother and sister will tell you.
  • 00:20:22.812 --> 00:20:26.582
  • And of course, you don't need to send anything anymore.
  • 00:20:26.582 --> 00:20:29.552
  • And that the worst scenario happened for me and lian
  • 00:20:29.552 --> 00:20:33.923
  • And the girls didn't survive october 7th.
  • 00:20:33.923 --> 00:20:36.759
  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report, what happened
  • 00:20:37.827 --> 00:20:40.830
  • The moment
  • 00:20:40.830 --> 00:20:41.964
  • That eli sharabi learned he was going to be set free,
  • 00:20:41.964 --> 00:20:44.667
  • Only to be told minutes later that his wife and daughters
  • 00:20:44.667 --> 00:20:48.304
  • Had been brutally murdered by hamas.
  • 00:20:48.304 --> 00:20:50.973
  • How did he react and what happened next?
  • 00:20:50.973 --> 00:20:53.676
  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
  • 00:20:53.676 --> 00:20:57.213
  • Right after the break.
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  • Right after the break.
  • 00:21:00.001 --> 00:21:03.721
  • Actually,
  • 00:21:04.021 --> 00:21:04.688
  • You know, in this ceremony,
  • 00:21:04.688 --> 00:21:07.524
  • Just before we we where we transferred from.
  • 00:21:07.524 --> 00:21:10.227
  • Hamas ceremony.
  • 00:21:10.227 --> 00:21:11.929
  • You know, there ask me how i feel that i'm going to meet
  • 00:21:11.929 --> 00:21:14.765
  • My wife and my daughters and,
  • 00:21:14.765 --> 00:21:18.035
  • And of course, i was, very happy about that.
  • 00:21:18.035 --> 00:21:21.372
  • Excited about that.
  • 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.907
  • And the moment i arrived to the idf
  • 00:21:23.907 --> 00:21:26.844
  • And the social worker, approached me and
  • 00:21:26.844 --> 00:21:30.481
  • Introduced herself and said to me
  • 00:21:31.181 --> 00:21:34.218
  • That my mother and my sister are waiting for me.
  • 00:21:34.218 --> 00:21:37.554
  • And i
  • 00:21:37.788 --> 00:21:38.756
  • Told her just to bring lian in because...
  • 00:21:38.756 --> 00:21:41.225
  • Did that seem like a strange sentence to you?
  • 00:21:41.225 --> 00:21:46.463
  • It went too quickly.
  • 00:21:46.463 --> 00:21:48.132
  • I didn't really want to believe what it was.
  • 00:21:48.132 --> 00:21:50.834
  • Of course, it was all quickly for me.
  • 00:21:50.834 --> 00:21:52.970
  • And and i said to her, just bring me lian and my
  • 00:21:52.970 --> 00:21:56.840
  • And my daughter's.
  • 00:21:56.840 --> 00:21:58.075
  • And she said, well, your mother and your sister will tell you.
  • 00:21:58.075 --> 00:22:01.512
  • And of course, you don't need to tell anything anymore.
  • 00:22:01.512 --> 00:22:04.448
  • And that the worst scenario happened for me
  • 00:22:04.448 --> 00:22:07.918
  • And lian and the girls didn't survive october 7th.
  • 00:22:07.918 --> 00:22:11.422
  • And i'm a very practical person, and i always,
  • 00:22:11.422 --> 00:22:15.325
  • You know, it was a possibility for me,
  • 00:22:15.325 --> 00:22:17.161
  • You know, but it was, you know, i put it
  • 00:22:17.161 --> 00:22:20.063
  • Deep inside of me and i didn't really want to believe that.
  • 00:22:20.063 --> 00:22:23.500
  • You would even told one of your
  • 00:22:23.500 --> 00:22:26.203
  • Fellow hostages who some young guys.
  • 00:22:26.203 --> 00:22:29.807
  • You were 51 when you were captured.
  • 00:22:29.807 --> 00:22:32.709
  • And there
  • 00:22:33.010 --> 00:22:34.077
  • Were, you know, young guys, in their young 20s.
  • 00:22:34.077 --> 00:22:36.513
  • And they were really they were they were weeping.
  • 00:22:36.513 --> 00:22:38.849
  • They were they were having a hard time
  • 00:22:38.849 --> 00:22:40.684
  • Just settling themselves.
  • 00:22:40.684 --> 00:22:41.885
  • I mean, it's a horrible situation,
  • 00:22:41.885 --> 00:22:43.220
  • But you were like, almost being a father to them,
  • 00:22:43.220 --> 00:22:46.089
  • Telling them, look, you just got to focus.
  • 00:22:46.089 --> 00:22:48.759
  • And you said and they said, well, when are you going to cry?
  • 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.529
  • And you said, when i'm when i know i'm safe,
  • 00:22:52.529 --> 00:22:56.200
  • When i know
  • 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:57.401
  • I'm nowhere near these guys, these evil monsters anymore
  • 00:22:57.401 --> 00:23:00.737
  • Than i'll let myself. yes. yeah.
  • 00:23:00.737 --> 00:23:03.106
  • And as, as the idf tells you, you are now safe.
  • 00:23:03.106 --> 00:23:07.110
  • But you're also learning
  • 00:23:07.110 --> 00:23:10.013
  • That lian and the girls have been murdered.
  • 00:23:10.013 --> 00:23:12.950
  • What? what happens inside of you?
  • 00:23:12.950 --> 00:23:14.651
  • Oh, was.
  • 00:23:14.651 --> 00:23:16.086
  • It was like a hammer on my head. but,
  • 00:23:16.086 --> 00:23:18.622
  • You know,
  • 00:23:18.922 --> 00:23:19.957
  • I was crying for five minutes, but then sobbing.
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  • And you're really describing just. yes. like.
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  • Yes and yes, weeping.
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  • But, and she hugged me and, tried to calm me down and,
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  • But after five minutes, just remember that, you know,
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  • I can choose again and you could choose again
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  • If i want, you know, because all 491 days,
  • 00:23:38.876 --> 00:23:42.546
  • You have loads of choices.
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  • People think that if you have been
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  • Kidnaped, you lose control, you know, 100%.
  • 00:23:47.284 --> 00:23:50.354
  • And for me, it's not the truth.
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  • And, you know, because, okay, i don't choose
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  • What to eat or when or how much or,
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  • How can i work, you know,
  • 00:23:59.963 --> 00:24:01.098
  • When i can walk to the bathroom or something like that,
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  • But i was free in my mind,
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  • And i can count days and i can think about my family
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  • And and i can choose to, to be optimistic or not.
  • 00:24:09.673 --> 00:24:14.378
  • You've got to know your fellow hostages.
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  • So much so that when you got out,
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  • One of your first calls was to the parents
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  • Of one of the guys that had got that you had had to say goodbye
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  • To, that they had not
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  • Permitted him to be released yet.
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  • Alon█s...
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  • Family. yes.
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  • Of course.
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  • No, it was my moral duty to do that.
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  • And the first moment that was released
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  • To talk with them and said to them, it is okay
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  • And it█s going to be, you know, he's going to survive that,
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  • And i'm sure about that.
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  • And he has enough tools to do that.
  • 00:24:47.744 --> 00:24:51.148
  • The ability,
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  • That he can do that now because they remember
  • 00:24:53.884 --> 00:24:56.853
  • A very delicate young guy.
  • 00:24:56.853 --> 00:24:59.089
  • And i needed to tell them that he was,
  • 00:24:59.089 --> 00:25:02.025
  • He had the the real process of how to survive.
  • 00:25:02.025 --> 00:25:05.662
  • And you'd help him, and you
  • 00:25:05.662 --> 00:25:07.564
  • Can do that.
  • 00:25:07.564 --> 00:25:10.367
  • You know, but,
  • 00:25:10.367 --> 00:25:11.969
  • For me, it was, again, i could let the grief
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  • And my loss to bury me the same moment
  • 00:25:15.572 --> 00:25:19.176
  • She let me know about my family or to choose to move on.
  • 00:25:19.176 --> 00:25:23.614
  • And again, i'm very practical person,
  • 00:25:23.614 --> 00:25:27.551
  • And then i can█t do anything to bring back lian.
  • 00:25:27.551 --> 00:25:30.754
  • And i had the same moment and understood that.
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  • But i'm here
  • 00:25:35.692 --> 00:25:37.294
  • And life is still here, and i love life.
  • 00:25:37.294 --> 00:25:40.764
  • Wow. what a what
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  • An honor to sit down with eli sharabi and hear that story.
  • 00:25:42.933 --> 00:25:46.637
  • I mean, i've read it cover to cover.
  • 00:25:46.637 --> 00:25:48.772
  • I know the story.
  • 00:25:48.772 --> 00:25:50.140
  • It's a it's an extraordinary story.
  • 00:25:50.140 --> 00:25:52.109
  • And i strongly encourage you to pick up a copy.
  • 00:25:52.109 --> 00:25:54.544
  • The book.
  • 00:25:54.544 --> 00:25:55.646
  • Actually pick one up for friends and family as gifts.
  • 00:25:55.646 --> 00:25:58.215
  • People need to know the story.
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  • Every christian
  • 00:26:00.350 --> 00:26:01.551
  • Who cares about israel at all needs to know this story.
  • 00:26:01.551 --> 00:26:04.988
  • And, and i don't want you to miss next week
  • 00:26:04.988 --> 00:26:07.624
  • Because we go further into the story
  • 00:26:07.624 --> 00:26:09.626
  • And you're going to hear how did he endure?
  • 00:26:09.626 --> 00:26:12.396
  • Well, what what strength, internal strength
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  • That he draw on to, to make it through and to
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  • And to counsel and encourage, and comfort, his fellow,
  • 00:26:18.068 --> 00:26:24.341
  • Hostages that were much younger than him
  • 00:26:25.175 --> 00:26:27.544
  • And eli really acted in many ways like a father to them.
  • 00:26:27.544 --> 00:26:31.214
  • Try to encourage them to stay the course, not to give up hope.
  • 00:26:31.214 --> 00:26:34.484
  • We're going to cover all of that
  • 00:26:34.484 --> 00:26:35.719
  • Next week on the rosenberg report.
  • 00:26:35.719 --> 00:26:37.287
  • In the meantime,
  • 00:26:37.287 --> 00:26:38.422
  • I would encourage you to share a link to this show,
  • 00:26:38.422 --> 00:26:41.525
  • On social media with family and friends
  • 00:26:41.525 --> 00:26:43.593
  • So that they understand this story
  • 00:26:43.593 --> 00:26:45.095
  • And they can really absorb it and internalize it.
  • 00:26:45.095 --> 00:26:47.898
  • And please be praying for him.
  • 00:26:47.898 --> 00:26:49.533
  • And then you can get
  • 00:26:49.533 --> 00:26:50.701
  • A copy of the link at rosenberg report.tv, or of course,
  • 00:26:50.701 --> 00:26:54.304
  • On our youtube channel,
  • 00:26:54.304 --> 00:26:55.439
  • Which i encourage you to subscribe to and to follow.
  • 00:26:55.439 --> 00:26:58.575
  • But please be praying for eli.
  • 00:26:59.176 --> 00:27:00.844
  • He is trying to not only be a good and faithful witness
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  • Of what he saw,
  • 00:27:04.648 --> 00:27:05.982
  • And speak for those who couldn't speak
  • 00:27:06.817 --> 00:27:08.685
  • Because they were murdered by hamas,
  • 00:27:08.685 --> 00:27:10.954
  • But he's also trying to rebuild his life and chart
  • 00:27:10.954 --> 00:27:13.824
  • A path forward, and he needs the healing of god
  • 00:27:13.824 --> 00:27:17.728
  • Physically, spiritually, emotionally,
  • 00:27:17.728 --> 00:27:20.130
  • Not just him,
  • 00:27:20.130 --> 00:27:21.064
  • But all the hostages that were released,
  • 00:27:21.064 --> 00:27:22.866
  • All the soldiers that have fought,
  • 00:27:22.866 --> 00:27:24.801
  • All those that have suffered on both sides
  • 00:27:24.801 --> 00:27:26.970
  • In this terrible war.
  • 00:27:26.970 --> 00:27:28.138
  • Thank you so much for watching.
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  • Don't miss next week's show.
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  • May you have a great week with your family
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  • And friends as you walk with the lord jesus christ
  • 00:27:33.510 --> 00:27:35.779
  • In the power of the holy spirit
  • 00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:37.180
  • And keep praying for peace and healing in this nation.
  • 00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:40.484
  • Until then, have a great week and lord willing,
  • 00:27:40.484 --> 00:27:43.086
  • I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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