Of course, you�ll want to come prepared with as much knowledge in advance of the Hebrew language. You can study in various ways.
First of all, an inexpensive radio with only one station is available in the United States. It receives broadcasts directly from Israel. Try to ignore the content, if it doesn't match your political or religious outlook. You are listening in order to learn the language.
You can also listen to occasional Israeli broadcasts on your local radio stations, or you can listen to actual Israeli programming through the Internet. It will help you learn a lot of spoken Hebrew.
You probably know people who have left Israel for whatever reason � and you may be friendly with some of them. If not, you should get to know some of them. Talk to them in Hebrew.
Take out Hebrew books from the library or buy Hebrew books.
Subscribe to an Israeli or easy Hebrew newspaper. Don't pamper yourself. Choose a newspaper that is more difficult than what you can handle. The more you struggle, the more you'll learn. Yisrael Shelanu is a newspaper that is written by http://www.geocities.com/GrossmanIsrael/Articles/Yerida/Intro.html">Yordim. It is published by an organization with the same name.
Buy Israeli CDs. They are available in various locations that have a high concentration of Israelis. Try to struggle through them. You will hate this. You don't know enough Hebrew to be able to understand the words, so it will be difficult to manage the language. Struggle anyhow. In time it will get easier.
Israeli Hebrew is vastly different from Yeshiva Hebrew that you may have studied previously. Both languages read from right to left, there are unquestionably similarities, and it certainly gives you a basis for learning modern Hebrew.
Now find a conversation partner to help you practice all of the modern Hebrew you've just learned.
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