Inside Israel's Information War

Watching Israel's war with Hamas unfold from his living room, Eylon Levy was surprised by the Israeli government's ineptitude in the international media. So the Oxbridge-educated former foreign media advisor to President Isaac Herzog donned a suit, propped up his laptop with a pile of books and started giving unofficial media interviews. Within a week, Eylon — who just that summer had been protesting the government in the streets of Tel Aviv — found himself working as a spokesperson for the prime minister's office...

During his six months working for the government, Eylon saw how little Israel has invested in public and foreign media relations. While militarily, Israel is succeeding dramatically and turning around the colossal failures of October 7th, in the information war, Israel and her supporters in the diaspora are struggling...

Now, again, as a private citizen, Eylon is refusing to cede ground to Israel enemies. That's why he started the Israeli Citizen Spokesperson's Office and the "Israel: State of a Nation with Eylon Levy" podcast — to make the case for Israel abroad and to explain to Israelis why they need to take the information war seriously.

I hope you'll tune in to hear our conversation wherever you get your podcasts.