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Joël Abu Hanna

Joël Abu Hanna is a German-born footballer who plays as a center-back and has represented the Israel national team.

born 1998Center-back for IsraelEuropean Under-19 title with GermanyPlaying for Maccabi Netanya

Born: 22 January 1998, Troisdorf
Occupation: association football player

Joël Abu Hanna was born in 1998 in Troisdorf

Abu Hanna was born in Troisdorf, Germany, in 1998. His father is an Arab Christian from Israel and his mother is a German Christian. He began playing at local German clubs and later joined the youth section of Bayer Leverkusen.

In 2017 he signed with Kaiserslautern in the German second division and made his debut that year. He moved to Magdeburg in 2018, was loaned to Fortuna Köln in 2019, and then joined Zorya Luhansk in Ukraine, his first club outside Germany.

He signed with Legia Warsaw in 2021 and was loaned to Lechia Gdańsk in 2022. In 2023 he joined Maccabi Netanya, and in 2024 he moved to Levadiakos in Greece. In 2026 he returned to Germany and signed with VfL Osnabrück.

He played for German youth teams and was part of the squad that won the 2015 European Under-19 Championship. In 2019 both Israel and Palestine showed interest in him, and he chose Israel. He made his senior Israel debut in 2020 against the Czech Republic and scored an own goal.