Yoana Alumni
Organization
עברית
Yoana Jabotinsky Youth Village · Be'er Ya'akov

Alumni for
the future.

Yoana Alumni Organization (YAO) was founded by alumni of the Yoana Jabotinsky Youth Village in Be'er Ya'akov. We give back to the village and to the students growing up there today.

The village since 1948 Founded by alumni in 2025 Run by volunteers
Kids swimming in the village pool Saxophone players on stage Girls sitting on the village lawn
Our story

Since 1948, the Yoana Jabotinsky Youth Village in Be'er Ya'akov has raised generation after generation of children, many of them new immigrants who found their first home in Israel there. Anyone who grew up there knows: it wasn't a school. It was home.

In 2025 a group of alumni got together and decided that this bond doesn't end on graduation day. They founded the organization to bring the alumni community back together and to give back to the village and its students. It was officially registered on 16 November 2025, and it has been bringing the community together ever since: lively class groups, gatherings at the village, and educational programs for the students there today.

The boarding house at the Yoana youth village, an archive photo
From the village archive
1948 The youth village opens its gates and starts raising generations.
2025 A group of alumni gets together and founds the organization.
16.11.2025 The organization is officially registered.
Today Lively class groups, gatherings at the village, and educational programs for today's students.
Our vision

Giving back to the village
what it gave us.

The Yoana Jabotinsky Youth Village made us who we are: the houses, the teachers, the friends who became family. We're bringing sixty graduating classes back together as one community, and all of us together are helping the village students of today.

Kids climbing a tree in the village
Our work plan

Alumni for Yoana

What we've learned, put to work for the village students of today.

Open and in order

Where we stand today

Not promises. Facts. This is what already stands behind our work.

Officially registered, with our tax files and bank account up and running
A volunteer board that meets every week and works with an accountant
A contact list of thousands of alumni, and it keeps growing
A full, budgeted work plan for 2026–27
From the official register

Our goals, on record

Six goals, written into our founding documents. They're the compass for everything we do.

1

Strengthening the bond between the alumni of the Yoana Jabotinsky Youth Village and the village, its students and its staff, and looking out for, supporting and helping alumni.

2

Adding educational, social and career value for the village's students and its alumni.

3

Promoting programs for excellence, innovation, wellbeing and equal opportunity for students and alumni.

4

Building an alumni directory for staying in touch, mentoring, fundraising and community activity.

5

Running projects in education, employment, culture and wellbeing for the village community.

6

Raising funds and building independent sources of income to pay for the organization's work.

The founders

The board

Everyone on the board is a volunteer, and no one is paid. The board meets every week and works with an accountant.

Boris Sigalov
Tal Sigalov
Evgenia (Jenny) Bondurianski Blinderman
Mariana Brodsky Fidelman
Arkady Ostrovsky
Avichai Ben David, Adv.
Nikita Shlomin
Official registration

Official details

Registered name Bogrey Yoanna — Bogrim Lemaan Atid
Association no. 580828564
Registered address 1 Yosef Siton St., Be'er Ya'akov — the youth village campus
Email info@yao.org.il
Website yao.org.il
Name in English Yoana Alumni Organization (YAO)
The board · all volunteers

To support our work with the village's students, or to partner with us, write to us.

info@yao.org.il