Mark Eliyahu

Mark Eliyahu was born in 1982 in Makhachkala

Eliyahu was born in 1982 in Dagestan and moved to Israel with his parents in 1989. His father, Peretz Eliyahu, is a composer and tar player from the Mountain Jews community, and his mother played the violin.

He studied violin as a child. As a teenager he left school in Ariel, lived for about half a year in Greece with the musician Ross Daly, and then moved to Baku to study kamancheh with Adalat Vazirov.

In 1999 he returned to Israel and took part in The Spirit of the East, a concert and album by his father with Alim Qasimov and Farghana Qasimova. In 2004 he recorded his first solo album, Voices of Judea. He later worked with the singer Rita, the New Jerusalem Orchestra and the Andalusian orchestra, and teaches at the Dahan Center of Bar-Ilan University.

In 2014 he received an ACUM award for his album Sands. In 2020 he composed and performed the theme music for the series Tehran. He is married to Alia, has 3 children and lives in Moshav Alonei Abba.