Ilan Yona

Ilan Yona is Hebrew Instructional Coach at Pressman Academy in Los Angeles, and concurrently a doctoral candidate in second language pedagogy at Middlebury College. Born in Israel, Ilan is passionate about connecting young Jewish students to the Hebrew language, to Jewish religion, to Jewish culture, and to the State of Israel. His goal is always to help students associate their Jewish identity with joy and never with drudgery. For these reasons, he is a vigorous advocate for the use of authentic modern Israeli materials alongside Biblical texts so that Hebrew and Jewish identity are of living relevance to his own students and to the students of the teachers he coaches.