Time Magazine included the memoir of former Israeli captive Eli Sharabi, titled “Hostage,” on its list of 100 “must-read” books of 2025, published Wednesday.

Ahead of the book’s international release on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, Time ran a long-format piece with translated excerpts from the memoir, which it called “A taut, immersive chronicle of endurance” that “also serves as a window into the Israeli view of the war.”

Sharabi “was pulled away from his wife and two daughters in the first hours of the [Oct. 7, 2023,] attack. For the next 491 days, with rare exceptions, the only people Sharabi saw were other hostages and Hamas militants—the same parties that have remained front and center in the viewfinder of Jewish Israelis for two solid years,

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