Yoni Alon

Yoni Alon is in the business of building bridges between Israelis and North American Jews. He was an Israeli Shaliach / Emissary with the Jewish Agency for Israel at the Staenberg-Loup JCC in Denver (2013-2015), prior to that, he served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) for seven and a half years (Maj res.).

Throughout his military service, he acted in various roles, including as a liaison officer in the International Cooperation Unit of the IDF, connecting the U.S. military with the IDF.

In the last 7 years, he has been working independently with Masa, JAFI, ANU Museum, WZO, Momentum, and other Israeli and Jewish nonprofits on various educational projects.

He is a graduate of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem with a BA in political science and media and a current student of the Ruderman MA program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa.

Visit Yoni’s blog: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/yoni-alon/