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Ilay Elmkies

Ilay Elmkies is an Israeli footballer who plays as a midfielder and has played for the Israel national team.

born 2000Midfielder for HoffenheimIsrael national team playerEqualizer against Slovakia in 2020

Born: 10 March 2000, Regba
Occupation: association football player

Ilay Elmkies was born in 2000 in Regba

Ilay Elmkies was born on 10 March 2000. He grew up in Israel and has two sisters. He also holds a French passport and speaks Hebrew, English and German.

He began playing in the youth teams of Beitar Nahariya and Maccabi Haifa. He later moved to German youth football and joined Hoffenheim's youth academy in 2015.

He debuted for Hoffenheim II in 2019 and for Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga in 2020. He was loaned to ADO Den Haag in the Netherlands in 2020 and to Admira Wacker Mödling in Austria in 2021. He then returned to Hoffenheim II and later left the club.

In 2023 he returned to Israel and signed with Bnei Sakhnin. He later joined Ironi Tiberias in 2025, then Maccabi Bnei Reineh, and Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv in 2026.

He played for Israel's youth national teams. He made his senior debut against Latvia in 2019 and scored his first senior goal against Slovakia in 2020.