High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ilana Verdansky is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Zuleikha Robinson. Ilana is introduced in the sixth episode of the fifth season of Lost as an officer boarding Ajira Airways Flight 316, with Sayid in her custody. However as her storyline progresses, it is revealed that she is someone deeply connected to the Island and to Jacob, the Island`s highest authority figure. Ilana is killed when a bag of dynamite she is carrying explodes unexpectedly.