Eylon Levy

Israeli Government Spokesman

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Feb 27, 2024, 5:36 AM

Let’s make Gen-Z Gen-Zionist!

Young American Jews are ripe for transformation. My speech at the Hillel International Israel Summit 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia

Jan 16, 2024, 8:11 AM

Fight for the living buried alive

We fight not because we want to, but because we must, because the forces that rise up in every generation have risen up in ours

Apr 23, 2017, 3:49 PM

Guess the date of this Holocaust art

This is 'The Wandering Jew' by Samuel Hirszenberg. Guess the year it was painted. Consider the clues. The piles of emaciated, skeletal bodies, stretching into the distance, are reminiscent of the graphic photographs of corpses from Buchenwald and Auschwitz—was the artist inspired...

Apr 2, 2017, 9:23 PM

Living in Israel is a rebellion against inertia

New immigrants from North America land at Israel's Ben Gurion airport after a Nefesh B'Nefesh chartered flight from New York, July 19, 2016. (Shahar Azran)

One year since moving to a country that drives him insane, he still loves the smell of audacity in the morning

Mar 13, 2017, 7:20 AM

Seven times Erdoğan has called people Nazis

As the diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands escalates, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is demanding an apology from Turkey's President Erdoğan for comparing his country to the Nazis. Erdoğan had described the Dutch government as "Nazi remnants and...

Nov 3, 2016, 10:39 PM

The Flood Comes from the Storm We Brew

God destroys the world in a Flood... or does he? In the Biblical narrative, God is presented as an agent who actively intervenes in the world in order to punish sinners and thereby produce dramatic upheavals in the history of mankind. In...

Oct 24, 2016, 9:21 PM

Nothing Like Simchat Torah in Tel Aviv

The corner of Ben Yehuda and Ben Gurion is the most symbolic spot in Tel Aviv. One next to the other: a wine bar, a yoghurt bar, a sushi bar, and a cafe so treif it sells bacon on Shabbat....

Jul 1, 2016, 6:25 AM

Spare me your shock

Yesterday morning, a Palestinian teenager broke into the home of a Jewish family near Hebron. He entered the bedroom of a thirteen-year-old girl. She was asleep. He locked the door. He raised a knife, and he stabbed Hallel Yaffe Ariel in...

Apr 22, 2016, 6:16 PM

The Two Ways We See Ourselves Having Gone Out of Egypt

"In every generation, one must see oneself as if one has gone out of Egypt." On Passover, we, the People of the Book and Broadway, use a rich menu of symbolism and song to bring the most epic story...

Mar 10, 2016, 3:36 PM

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About Me

Eylon Levy is an Israeli government spokesman in the October 7 War and host of the State of a Nation podcast. He previously served as international media adviser to President Isaac Herzog after a career television news anchor. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Blogs from before the October 7 Massacre are in a strictly private capacity.