Gilad Shalit has given his first interview since his release almost a year ago. A clip from the interview, which was screened on Israel’s Channel 10 on Thursday evening, showed the former soldier speaking about his time in captivity.
He detailed how he used to pass the time. “During the day I would play with all kinds of games. Chess, dominoes, and I played all sorts of things with myself, strange games” he said. “I would make a ball of socks or a shirt and I would throw it in the trash. I would invent all sorts of things.”
He also said that he used to write, but was wary of upsetting his captors by doing so.
“I’d hide it sometimes, because some did not like my writing,” he said. “Some thought I was collecting information.”
