EylON the Record
After October 7, Eylon Levy became one of Israel’s most visible defenders, making the official case for a nation at war.
Now the war is over.
The blue-suit uniform is off.
And the talking points are gone.
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EylON the Record is where the conversation begins.
This podcast features hard-hitting, long-form, unscripted conversations with the people whose ideas, experience, and judgment actually matter — not only for Israel, but for the future of democracy and freedom.
Join Eylon beyond headlines, soundbites, and spin, diving into:
• War and national security
• Media, power, and propaganda
• Democracies under pressure
• What comes next and what the West gets wrong
Originally launched as State of a Nation, this podcast reached millions of viewers around the world.
Now it returns in a sharper, more personal format with the freedom to ask harder questions, challenge comfortable assumptions, and follow the truth in a world where powerful forces are constantly competing to shape how we think.
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Israel’s Draft Crisis: Why Reservists Are Breaking Under an Unequal Burden | Yonatan Shalev
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A country at war can survive many things. A broken social contract isn’t one of them.
In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Yonatan Shalev, a 23-year-old former special forces soldier and reservist activist, about Israel’s exploding draft crisis: an army short tens of thousands, repeated reserve call-ups stretching families to breaking point, and a government trying to legislate what critics call a “draft-dodging law” to formalize mass exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men. What happens to Israel’s security, economy, and liberal democracy when service becomes something only a shrinking segment is expected to carry?
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why the IDF says it’s short tens of thousands of soldiers — and what that means in a prolonged war
- How repeated reserve duty is crushing the same people who power Israel’s economy and civil society
- The politics of coalition survival vs. national survival: why the draft issue could trigger elections
- The deeper Haredi reality: fear of leaving a closed world, lack of basic education, and rabbinic control
Israel’s draft debate isn’t just about fairness. It’s about whether a small country in a hostile region can keep a sustainable army, a functioning economy, and a shared sense of obligation — without sliding into a two-tier citizenship where some serve and others are protected from the cost.
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EylON the Record is a podcast about Israel, the global information war, and the battle between democratic societies and authoritarian or extremist movements — told through in-depth conversations with people shaping events on the front lines.
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