Israel’s Draft Crisis: Why Reservists Are Breaking Under an Unequal Burden | Yonatan Shalev

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Eylon Levy discusses Israel's draft crisis with reservist activist Yonatan Shalev.

Send us Fan Mail Support the podcast and keep it independent. 👉Subscribe on Patreon for $10/month: 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...

People in this episode

Host: Eylon Levy

Guest: Yonatan Shalev

Topics covered

• draft crisis
• reservists
• social contract
• military
• Israel
• activism

Keywords

• Israel
• draft crisis
• reservists
• military service
• social contract
• Yonatan Shalev

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Places: Israel

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