Their daughter Lianne comes from the UK; she had a Teddy Bear from the age of 10, and years later married Eli Sharabi from Israel. Her parents continue to reside in the UK.
On Oct 7, Lianne lived with her husband Eli in Kibbutz Be’eri with their two teenage girls Noiya and Yahel. Eli left home to go out and fight, and was taken as POW by Hamas, and now that he’s been released yesterday on Day 491 of his captivity, now he learns that his wife Lianne and their teenage daughters were murdered while hiding in the safe room on Oct. 7.
Some months after Oct 7, Eli’s inlaws, his wife’s parents, traveled from the UK to visit the destroyed home in Be’eri and found that exact same Teddy Bear that their daughter had kept since she was only 10. They knew their daughter and grandchildren were dead, while Eli in captivity did not know. As Lianne’s mother and father watched for Eli’s release yesterday,
“…she clutched a teddy bear to her chest. It was a reminder of everything the family has suffered since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing their daughter, Lianne Sharabi, and teenage granddaughters, Noiya and Yahel, while taking son-in-law Eli Sharabi hostage. Eli’s brother Yossi was also taken hostage and later killed…”
Yesterday during Shabbat, Hamas traded three emaciated Israeli male civilian POWs, Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, and Eli Sharabi, in return for hundreds of Arabic killers convicted of serious crimes in a court of law. Clearly, the Israelis had treated the Arab convicts properly during their legal imprisonment, while Gazans starved these three innocent civilians so they looked like Shoah (Holocaust) survivors.
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Sources:
Jerusalem Post, 9 Feb 2025 pg 1.
Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/teddy-bear-helps-hostages-family-come-to-terms-with-grief-amid-joy-over-his-release/