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Eylon Aslan-Levy, also known as Eylon Levy, is a British-Israeli politician who served as official Israeli government spokesman, from the start of 2023 Israel–Hamas war to March 2024, when he was suspended. Levy was born in London, United Kingdom. He attended University College School in London and University of Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2013. He moved to Israel in 2014 at the age of 23 to join the Israeli military during the 2014 Gaza War. In 2016, Levy began work as the chief news anchor at IBA News, and then later presented news at i24NEWS. In 2021, Israeli president Isaac Herzog appointed him as his international media advisor at the Office of the President of Israel. After the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, he became an official Israeli government spokesman and one of Israel's most internationally recognized faces in the war. On March 19, 2024, Levy was suspended as spokesman "after complaints from the UK government". 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. Levy attended University College School in London, before going onto Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2013. While studying at Oxford, he participated in debate championships around the world. During his time at Oxford, Levy participated in a debate with George Galloway in which Galloway walked out after learning that Levy was an Israeli citizen. 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. While at Cambridge, Levy ran unsuccessfully to become President of the Cambridge Union Society. He moved to Israel in 2014 at the age of 23 to enlist in the Israeli military during the 2014 Gaza War, and served in the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit. 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. Among his previously published works: Catch-67 by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018) #IsraeliJudaism by Shmuel Rosner and Camil Fuchs (Jerusalem: JPPI, 2019) The War of Return by Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020) Shimon Peres: An Insider's Account by Avi Gil (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020) The Story of Secular Jews by Amnon Rubinstein (Tel Aviv: Kotarim, 2021) The Wondering Jew by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021) From Africa to Zion by Danny Adeno Abebe (Tel Aviv: Yediot Books, 2021) The Israeli Century by Yossi Shain (New York: Wicked Son, 2021) The Fifth Fiasco by David Passig (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021) Frayed by Yair Ettinger (New York: Koren Publishers, 2023) 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. Controversies Joking that Israel had assassinated Hezbollah leader's speechwriter During the early stages of the conflict, Eylon Levy encountered a diplomatic setback characterized by a press conference response to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Levy remarked with what Levy described as "dark British humour" that Nasrallah's speech was so boring that Israel probably had assassinated Nasrallah's speechwriter. Levy also noted that Nasrallah was not onstage during the address, such that the Hezbollah leader must have been "hiding in a bunker like a coward" as he was defending what Levy termed "the pedophile rapists of Hamas". The Public Diplomacy Directorate of the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel deemed the disparaging comments a diplomatic failure. Despite Levy's British accent and proficiency in English, he was perceived as a reflection of the "overly confident" but "unfocused" Israeli public diplomacy "machine". The Directorate contemplated removing Levy as international media spokesperson, but in the end granted him a second opportunity with guidance from higher authorities who emphasized the inappropriate nature of his response as a government spokesperson. Levy acknowledged the lapse, recognizing that, in his role, humour was not the primary objective but rather conveying information seriously and professionally. Calling pro-Palestinian demonstrators "rape apologists" In November 2023, host Lewis Goodall of radio show LBC asked Levy about his tweet labelling London protestors against Israeli actions in Palestine "rape apologists". Levy replied that he challenged anyone offended by the term, to hold up a sign at a pro-Palestine march with the sentence "I condemn Hamas for raping Israeli women and girls". Performance in interviews The Times of Israel praised Levy for his interview performance, writing that Levy is"energized, assumes a Sphinx-like expression and delivers an impressive barrage of well-reasoned, well-crafted arguments. There’s no hesitation. He doesn’t play the victim, doesn’t argue, doesn’t philosophize. Levy wears a face of restrained anger when talking about children, a penetrating look when discussing soldiers, and a neutral expression when mentioning the prime minister – the same prime minister against whom Levy demonstrated with shirts that read “Democracy or Rebellion” just over two months ago. Nonetheless, no one can detect even a hint of criticism [of Netanyahu] in him." Reported intention to remove Levy as spokesman On January 22, 2024, the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post reported that Sara Netanyahu, wife of the current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tried to oust Levy from his spokesperson role for participating in the 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests before the Israeli war on Gaza. Levy's posts on X (formerly Twitter) had reportedly circulated among persons in the prime minister's inner circle and upset some of them. Sara Netanyahu's endeavor to dismiss Levy aroused significant public outcry over what was seen as her overreach. 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