Eli Sharabi Still Has Not Met Netanyahu: “It’s Not Something I Need, Nothing Good Will Come of It”

Survivor of captivity Eli Sharabi said in an interview: “The fact that a state commission of inquiry has not been established is more sad than angry” N12 Published: 10.06.26, 22:46 “A meeting with the prime minister? Not something I need,” Sharabi (archive) | Photo: N12

In brief: The captivity survivor said he has not met Netanyahu since his return from captivity, and said: “It’s not something I’m looking forward to.” He cast doubt on his ability to influence the prime minister’s position and push him to establish a state commission of inquiry: “It won’t happen. It’s more sad than angry.” Sharabi also claimed it is “naive” to think he would sit down with the prime minister, and wondered, “What would come of it?” Background: advancing the authority of the state comptroller in choosing the members of the political committee.

Captivity survivor Eli Sharabi said today (Wednesday) in an interview with Kan News on Reshet Bet that he has not met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even once since October 7. He shared his feelings about the possibility of a meeting with Netanyahu, and said he does not expect one: “It’s clear to me that nothing good will come of it. It’s naive to think that I will sit with the prime minister and say all the right and precise things. I’m not dealing with that.”

Sharabi argued that the failure to establish a commission of inquiry harms the way and the values of the state, but said he does not think a meeting with Netanyahu would advance the goal: “The moment I say that to him, will Netanyahu say, ‘Wow, Eli Sharabi told me, so tomorrow I’ll establish a commission of inquiry’? It won’t happen.”

Eli Sharabi: “The fact that a commission of inquiry has not been established is more sad than angry” (archive) | Photo: Alon Galboa

Sharabi went on to question his ability to move the prime minister from his position regarding a commission of inquiry: “I don’t want to be in a place where I said the things, they were heard and moved on. No one wants to learn in order to prevent something like this from happening in the future. It’s more sad than angry.”

“Israel has always established commissions of inquiry after every war that was fought, in order to learn and draw conclusions,” Sharabi said in the interview. “When you don’t do that for 1,000 days, it’s clear that someone is uncomfortable with such a commission of inquiry.”

At the same time, he clarified that he does not want to focus on negative emotions, and chooses to “keep moving forward, to look, to build, to do.”

Advertisement Background: transferring authority over the selection of committee members to the state comptroller | Photo: Miriam Alster, Yonatan Sindel, Flash90

Sharabi’s remarks come against the backdrop of Netanyahu’s clear position against a state commission of inquiry, and the продвижение of legislation for a political committee. In “The Central Edition,” we reported on the change made to the wording of the law establishing a commission of inquiry into October 7, which indicates that Netanyahu is working to grant new authority to the elected state comptroller, attorney Michael Ravilo, under which he would appoint half of the members of the planned commission of inquiry.

This is not the first time Sharabi, who was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Be'eri and released in a deal after 491 days, has criticized politicians and the country’s leadership. In an interview on “Meet the Press” this past January, he noted the leadership’s responsibility for the public discourse, especially toward the attorney general and the president of the Supreme Court: “They are using violent discourse. I think they forget for a moment that people are watching them, listening to them, and their words can be very problematic.”

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