Jonathan Cohon
Instructor # 352683 | Nefesh Defense
Certified with the USCCA since 12/3/2023
Certification Renewal Date 12/3/2026
USCCA Certifications
- Concealed Carry & Home Defense
- Range Safety Officer
- Countering the Mass Shooter
- Emergency & First Aid
- Marksmanship Simplified: Foundations of Handgun Coaching
My Biography
At Nefesh Defense we provide training and guidance for individuals and groups so they can develop and implement their own unique safety and security plans. The word ‘Nefesh’ in Hebrew means ‘soul’. Our goal is to cultivate the principle of the ‘protective soul’, or in Hebrew, ‘Nefesh Haganah’.
Our training model embraces the techniques of situational awareness, avoidance, and de-escalation. As Steve Tarani, security expert and consultant with USCCA, has said: “If you have to go to your gun, all of your plans have failed”.
In the event that the use of force is necessary and unavoidable, we will also teach you proper firearm handling in a safe manner for students ranging from beginner to advanced.
Emergency medical response knowledge and skills can save loved ones, or your self, in the event of an injury or illness. Our CPR/AED and Control the Bleed classes are taught by a National Registry Emergency Medical Technician so that you have the latest and most effective techniques to keep someone alive until help arrives.
Contact Nefesh Defense today to further build your skill sets to keep you and those your soul loves safe.
Jonathan Cohon, owner, is the Director of Safety and Preparedness for his synagogue. He has over a decade of professional training in both the defensive and tactical use of firearms and is a National Registry Emergency Medical Technician.
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Stay safe while showing properties by using situational awareness, deescalation, and escape to avoid life threatening situations while building your business and serving your clients.
This class teaches proper draw from concealment, accurate fire, and controlled handgun manipulation. Dry fire drills drills and laser training are used in this class to prepare the student for live fire on the range. This is a fundamentals course that is appropriate for firearm owners who have completed at least one previous handgun course. Learning and reinforcement of proper habits builds safety, accuracy, and confidence in ones skills. These skills will then be tested on the range.
You know the rules of the road for your bike, car, or truck, do you really know the rules of carrying a concealed firearm? This class is best for residents of Indiana who choose to carry a firearm for self defense following the laws of the State of Indiana. This class covers the responsibilities every concealed firearm carrier has to know.
The ability to provide life saving immediate care to stop bleeding caused by a workplace injury, accident, or gunshot may mean the life of a loved one or your own life. Keeping a victim alive so that professional medical help can get to them is crucial. If you carry a firearm you need to know how to perform the skills taught in this class. Students will participate in multiple hands-on exercises practicing the skills taught.
Learn the skills necessary to provide cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) to keep a person alive until help arrives. This course is taught by a National Registry Emergency Medical Technician and upon successful completion the student will receive credentials good for two years. This course satisfies work requirements for CPR/AED certification.
Being a member of a House of Worship Safety or Security Team is recommended for this course. This is a focused class for House of Worship safety and security teams that begins with an explanation of a risk assessment of your specific house of worship and congregational needs. Then explores explanation of multi-layered perimeter security and its implementation, and of the need for an SOP handbook for response to both medical emergencies or physical threats and a basic table of contents for one. The class outlines basic protocols to follow that both meet the needs of the congregation and can be fulfilled by the safety/security team present regardless of budget.
Class will cover handgun maintenance; holster choice and carry position; draw and grip; sight picture; trigger manipulation; weapon manipulation; reloads; and movement while shooting.
Being a member of a House of Worship Safety or Security Team is required for this course. Prerequisite: House of Worship Introduction. This is the second House of Worship Security focused class that covers: social media presence; initial contact and vetting; identifying threat behavior; interview techniques; safety/security team communications; and developing a working interface with emergency services.
Being a member of a House of Worship Safety or Security Team is required for this course. This course is designed for all members of the House of Worship safety/security team. This covers responding to a medical emergency NOT a violent trauma event. Topics covered: medical response team structure and duties; patient assessment; administration of CPR and AED; rescue breaths; single rescuer and multi-rescuer procedures; stroke assessment; seizure response; syncope response; patient movement; and what to do when help arrives. This class will explain the what and why behind causes and response taught.
Being a member of a House of Worship Safety or Security Team is required for this course. This class is response to traumatic injuries including severe hemorrhage, it is NOT a CPR/AED class. Designed for the House of Worship safety/security team the course covers: team roles and responsibilities; medical supplies; mass casualty triage; patient assessment; deployment of tourniquets; wound packing; chest seals; pressure bandages; and treatment for shock. This class includes use of practice wound packing manikin segments. This class includes a materials charge.
Being a member of a House of Worship Safety or Security Team is required for this course. *All students for this class must pass qualification at the start of the class. Those that do not pass qualification may participate dry fire only or make other arrangements. This is the qualification format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVgCHbCsmCc Not all parts of the qualification shown in the video will be used. **Prerequisite: House of Worship Introduction; and House of Worship Trauma Medical Response. Classroom instruction covers what to do when you have no choice but to employ your firearm. The course of fire will include: drawing and firing from retention; firing around barricades; clearing malfunctions; moving and shooting around no-shoot targets. The majority of this class includes movement while employing the firearm and removing simulated innocents from danger while providing defense.