Ilana David Glaz

Ilana David Glaz was born in 1961 in Baku

Ilana David was born Lena Glaz on 23 May 1961 in Baku, in Soviet Azerbaijan. Her father taught her chess and her mother taught her piano. She joined a local chess club and studied at a music school for gifted children.

She won the Azerbaijani women's championship in 1977 and the Dynamo women's championship in 1978. In 1979 she moved to Israel with her family and joined the Beersheba chess club. She studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and later earned a master's degree in music from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1987.

In 1980 she won the Israeli Women's Chess Championship and played for Israel at the Women's Chess Olympiad in Malta. She played at further Olympiads in 1982, 1988 and 2014, and received the Woman International Master title. She also directed conservatories and taught music until she retired in 2017.

In 2013 she became director of the Beersheba chess club. She became a FIDE Arbiter in 2015 and a FIDE Trainer in 2016, and captained Israel's women's team from 2016 to 2018. In 2019 she was named captain of Israel's men's team, the first woman in that role.