From Shepherd to IDF Hero: Yoel Zilberman's Unstoppable Journey

Behind the Bima

🇮🇱 From Shepherd to Seal to Nation-Builder | Major Yoel Zilberman | Behind the Bima

📍 Recorded live in Boca Raton, FL

In this unforgettable episode of Behind the Bima, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg sits down with Major Yoel Zilberman, an elite IDF commander and the founder & CEO of Hashomer HaChadash (Hasham)—Israel’s largest volunteer organization, mobilizing over 300,000 volunteers to defend Israel’s farms, strengthen the land, and raise the next generation of Zionist leaders.

From his humble beginnings as a shepherd in the Galilee to serving in Israel’s Navy Seals, and now leading a national movement reshaping Israel’s borders, Major Zilberman shares powerful insights on:
• What October 7th revealed about Israel’s vulnerabilities and resilience
• The crisis of food security and land abandonment in Israel—and why food independence is a matter of national security
• How his tent on a hill became a symbol of resistance, community, and rebirth
• Why real leadership starts on the land, and not in politics
• His call to action for Jews around the world to protect, work, and love the land of Israel

This conversation is a blueprint for the Jewish future—brimming with clarity, courage, and a charge to build, plant, and lead.