EYLON: Israel Electioncast

Support the podcast and join a subscriber-only Q&A webinar:👉 Subscribe on Patreon for $10/month: https://patreon.com/eylonpodcast 🎙 Filmed at M10 Studios, Tel Aviv https://m10.co.il/video-podcast-studio-tel-aviv Should Arab men be called up to the IDF—and lose benefits if they refuse? Could border yeshivas bring ultra-Orthodox men into uniform?Israel First leader Sharren Haskel joins Eylon Levy ahead of the Israeli election. She chose security and conscription, the economy, and education; Eylon chose civil liberties. Haskel proposes military call-ups for Arab and ultra-Orthodox men, with lost subsidies for those who decline, and border yeshivas where students would train and serve.Haskel calls for sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and the end of the Oslo framework. Asked what would replace the Palestinian Authority, she offers tribal or local autonomy as ideas to investigate, rather than a settled plan. She proposes a cap on household benefits and school vouchers that would let parents choose schools, even if unions strike. On civil liberties, she defends licensed cannabis shops for adults over 21; Eylon challenges her on psychosis risks and safeguards for children.The Israel Electioncast helps English-speaking Israelis and international viewers understand what Israelis are arguing about before the critical 27 October elections.Explore the series: https://www.eylonalevy.com/electioncast Join my subscriber-only webinar on 26 October: https://patreon.com/eylonpodcast

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Can a crocodile-filled prison moat deter terrorism—and how will acting like a crazy man boost Israel's image?
Otzma Yehudit’s Yishai Fleisher joins Eylon Levy ahead of the first Israeli election after the October 7 massacre.
His choices: deterrence, Aliyah and international legitimacy. Eylon’s fourth: law and order.
Fleisher defends wider gun licensing, tougher prisons and a ministry to encourage Gazans to emigrate. He proposes Hebrew classes to encourage Jewish immigration, while arguing to review whether Reform converts should even be eligible to make Israel their home.
Eylon presses him on Ben-Gvir’s hangman’s-noose imagery, Israel’s reputation and policing vigilante violence in Judea and Samaria.
The Israel Electioncast is for English-speaking Israelis and international viewers who want to understand what Israelis are really arguing about before the critical October 27 elections.
Produced by Leah Miller
Explore the series: https://www.eylonalevy.com/electioncast
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Israel is about to hold the most fateful election in its history, the first since the October 7 Massacre. But what will the politicians seeking the nation's trust do with that power?
Eylon Levy launches EYLON: Israel Electioncast. These are conversations about policy, not politics, for people who want to understand what Israelis are really arguing about ahead of the October 27 election.
Meet the candidates who are seeking the nation's confidence.
Three topics chosen by the candidate, one by Eylon, and an optional politics question in a sealed envelope.
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This is the last episode of this series. We’ll be back in late September with a special Israel Electioncast series, grilling the candidates for Knesset on their manifestos.
Hamas can establish a narrative in minutes. Israel may need hours to establish the truth—and by then, the damage has already been done.
In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Rachel Lester, a former video editor in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit and author of Digital Warrior: Inside Israel’s Battle for the Narrative After October 7, about what happened behind the scenes during Israel’s information war. Drawing on their experiences inside the IDF and Prime Minister’s Office, they examine why Israel struggled to communicate during the opening months of the war—and how those failures affected its international legitimacy and freedom to fight.
In this episode, we discuss:
 How Hamas uses civilian casualties and graphic images to turn military losses into international pressure on Israel 
 Why the four-hour silence after the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion allowed a false narrative to spread around the world 
 Whether Israel made a strategic mistake by withholding graphic footage of the October 7 atrocities 
 How bureaucracy, competing audiences and institutional dysfunction undermined Israel’s wartime messaging 
This is not simply a debate about whether Israel has “bad PR.” In modern warfare, public opinion shapes diplomatic pressure, military decisions and whether democracies are permitted to defend themselves. When lies travel instantly but the truth requires verification, accuracy alone may not be enough to win.
🎯 Key moment:
 “Hamas has basically made sure that whatever Israel does, we lose.”
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Turkey’s ruling party has spent $6.2 million establishing a permanent presence in Washington—run by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s cousin. Its representatives have gained access to senior American officials, journalists, activists, and media figures, but its government filings reveal almost nothing about what was discussed.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with OSINT investigator Eitan Fischberger about the AKP’s Washington headquarters, the extraordinary range of figures its representative Halil Mutlu has met, and what Turkey may be seeking from its expanding influence operation. As Ankara’s ambitions increasingly clash with the interests of Israel and the United States, the question is not whether Turkey is trying to shape American policy and public opinion—but how, and toward what end.

In this episode, we discuss:

- How Erdoğan’s cousin became the AKP’s representative in Washington and gained access to senior members of Congress, government committees, journalists, and podcasters
- The reported meetings with Mehdi Hasan, CAIR, Code Pink, John Kiriakou, and Tucker Carlson’s business partner
- Why FARA filings can disclose who foreign agents meet while revealing almost nothing about what they are trying to accomplish
- Turkey’s efforts to regain access to the F-35 program, weaken support for Israel and the Kurds, rehabilitate Erdoğan’s image, and establish itself as the Middle East’s dominant regional power

This is about more than lobbying. Turkey remains a NATO member while maintaining close relations with Russia, supporting Hamas, confronting Israel, and pursuing an increasingly assertive regional agenda. If Ankara can shape how Americans understand the Middle East while concealing the purpose of its political outreach, it can advance that agenda with far less scrutiny.

🎯 Key moment:
“If everyone is focusing on Israel, then nobody’s focusing on Turkey. And then Turkey can continue to do what it’s doing.”

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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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