His mother, Shoshana, was born on Moshav Givat Hen, near Ra'anana; her father, Israel, had been a member of the group of vegan pioneers who tried to settle Mount Kinneret and later deserted the area.

The years of communal sleeping in the children's house, the constant search for social and academic frameworks in the nearby kibbutzim, and loneliness left their mark on him.

At the end of his fourth year at the Technion, Alony won a competition for planning the community settlement Mitzpe Aviv, along with architect Tony Barter.

[4] [3] A partner at the architecture firm “I-Alony – D.Drori,” he has designed such projects as the master plan for the development of the western Negev (competition winner); Derech HaBesor, including the suspension bridge above HaBesor Stream; The Kiryat Malakhi Elderly Day Care Center (competition winner); the design of the Tzukim community settlement in the Arava area; the expansion of kibbutzim and moshavim; the planning of residential neighborhoods and commercial areas in Budapest, and commercial centers in Serbia.

[3] During his years as an architect, Alony also devised and produced various cultural projects, including: "Story from the Movies" (six Israeli dramas based on Israeli fiction), in collaboration with The New Fund for Cinema and TV, which was aired on Channel 2, Telad Network; [4] [3] [7] he served as executive producer of the film "To Each His Everest," following a group of people with special needs to the Everest Base Camp.

He also produced various travel films broadcast on channel 2, including: “Kailash,” about a journey to the mountain holy to Hinduism and Buddhism, which included a personal meeting and extended interview with the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, an interview that deeply influenced Alony later in life; the series "The Seven Peaks", which followed the journey of mountain climber Doron Erel to the highest mountain on every continent; [3] [8] [9] he was also the executive producer of the film "Monks in the Desert – Spiritual Warriors", screened at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.

[10] Iftach Alony also initiated and participated in various delegations, which included accompanying hunters of the Inuit tribe to the Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and journeys to the Libyan Desert, the regions of the Caucasus (where he climbed Mount Elbrus), India, Nepal, and Tibet.

[13] [11] [14] In 2005, Alony participated in the group exhibition "Communal Sleeping," curated by Tali Tamir at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

[29] [30] As part of the Short Story Project, Alony created the literary production "Listen to This", an ensemble of four actors (Menashe Noy, Alma Dishi, Or Rotem, Matan Ksirer) reading short stories from the project, accompanied by a pianist and a percussionist; Tzavta Theater staged the production.