Eli Wininger was scheduled to run the Moab 240 Endurance Run in Utah on Oct. 13, 2023.
But six days before, Hamas attacked Israel, killing at least 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. Hezbollah launched rockets toward the Jewish state one day later.
This year, Wininger, a reservist commander of an elite reconnaissance unit in the Israel Defense Forces who was most recently stationed in northern Israel to fight Hezbollah, will be running for the first time in the 240-mile ultramarathon on Oct. 11.
He is doing so to commemorate the 251 hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023. Wininger intends to run an extra 11 miles so that his race can be one mile for every hostage….