Eylon Aslan Levy is an official Israeli government spokesman, serving since the start of 2023 Israel–Hamas war.[1][2] He served previously as international media advisor to President Isaac Herzog, after a career as a television news anchor at i24News and IBA News.[3] Levy's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.[4][5][6][7][8]

Biography

Levy was born in London, United Kingdom to Israeli emigrant parents who worked in real estate, and is of Iraqi-Jewish ancestry. He began participating in debate clubs at age 14.[9] Levy attended University College School in London[10], before going onto to Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2013 .[11][12] While studying at Oxford, he participated in debate championships around the world.[9] He received his master's degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he wrote his thesis on the issue of Jewish refugees from the Arab world in Israeli foreign policy.[13] Whilst at Oxford, Levy participated in a debate with George Galloway in which Galloway walked out after learning that Levy was an Israeli citizen.[14][15][16] He moved to Israel in August 2014 at the age of 23. During his service in the Israel Defense Forces, he served in the COGAT unit.[17][9]

In 2016, Levy worked as the chief news anchor at IBA News, the English-language broadcast on Israeli public television. He later worked at the international news network i24NEWS, as a news anchor, commentator, and investigative journalist. In 2021, Israeli president Isaac Herzog appointed him as his international media advisor at the Office of the President of Israel, in which capacity he served for the first two years of the Herzog presidency.

As a Hebrew-to-English literature translator, Levy has translated several influential works of Hebrew non-fiction. In 2022, he was named the inaugural translation finalist of the Sami Rohr Prize in recognition of his translation of Danny Adeno Abebe's memoir From Africa to Zion.[18] Among his previously published works:

  • Catch-67 by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018)[19]
  • #IsraeliJudaism by Shmuel Rosner and Camil Fuchs (Jerusalem: JPPI, 2019)[20]
  • The War of Return by Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020)[21]
  • Shimon Peres: An Insider's Account by Avi Gil (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)[22]
  • The Story of Secular Jews by Amnon Rubinstein (Tel Aviv: Kotarim, 2021)[23]
  • The Wondering Jew by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)[24]
  • From Africa to Zion by Danny Adeno Abebe (Tel Aviv: Yediot Books, 2021)[25]
  • The Israeli Century by Yossi Shain (New York: Wicked Son, 2021)[26]
  • The Fifth Fiasco by David Passig (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021)[27]
  • Frayed by Yair Ettinger (New York: Koren Publishers, 2023)[28]

Levy was the co-creator of the musical comedy A Theory of Justice: The Musical, which premiered in Oxford in 2013 and was revived for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was nominated for four awards.[29]

References

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  3. ↑ "On Jewish anti-Zionism". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  4. ↑ "Grapevine: Taking the Jew(s) out of Britain". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  5. ↑ "Building a state in the shadow of the Holocaust". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  6. ↑ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  7. ↑ "Obsessive Gaza coverage is fanning antisemitism | Eylon Aslan-Levy". the Guardian. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  8. ↑ "Perspective | Israel won the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any plan has to reflect that". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  9. 1 2 3 "Israel's newest, British-born international spokesperson is raising some eyebrows". Times of Israel.
  10. ↑ Rosenberg, Michelle. "Top London boys' school says no to talk by former pupil, Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy". www.jewishnews.co.uk.
  11. ↑ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". OxPol. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  12. ↑ "Notable Alumni - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  13. ↑ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". aishcom. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  14. ↑ "Galloway walks out of debate with Oxford Israeli student". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  15. ↑ "Oxford in uproar over union motion to boycott Israel". the Guardian. 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  16. ↑ "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford". the Guardian. 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  17. ↑ "Farewell, IDF; it's been an honor". blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  18. ↑ "The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Library of Israel Announce New Collaboration". www.nli.org.il. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  19. ↑ Goodman, Micah (2019-10-08). Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War. Translated by Levy, Eylon.
  20. ↑ Rosner, Shmuel; Fuchs, Camil (2019-08-29). #IsraeliJudaism: Portrait of a Cultural Revolution.
  21. ↑ Schwartz, Adi; Wilf, Einat (2020-04-28). The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace.
  22. ↑ Gil, Avi (2020-11-12). Shimon Peres: An Insider’s Account of the Man and the Struggle for a New Middle East.
  23. ↑ Rubinstein, Amnon. THE STORY OF THE SECULAR JEWS.
  24. ↑ Goodman, Micah (2020-11-10). The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity. Translated by Levy, Eylon.
  25. ↑ Abebe, Danny Adeno (2021-04-20). From Africa To Zion.
  26. ↑ Shain, Yossi (2021-11-02). The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed History and Reinvented Judaism.
  27. ↑ "The Fifth Fiasco, or How to Escape the Traps of Jewish History in the Twenty-First Century - Cambridge Scholars Publishing". www.cambridgescholars.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  28. ↑ "Frayed". Koren Publishers. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  29. ↑ "Nominees for WhatsOnStage supported MTN Awards announced in Edinburgh | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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