The Top 10 – Israeli Rookies from the Last 3 Years 2021-2024

How many players got into the 100 golden boy greatest talent for this year?

Ben Harush selected to the 94^th place in a list that includes Lamine Yamal, Garnacho and Kobe Mainoo. In his debut season, he was a permanent player in Hapoel Haifa and played 33 games and even assisted twice and score a debut goal.   

When Ganah was a child, he had posters of his childhood hero Elyaniv Barada, a local hero of Hapoel Be’er Sheva. The years passed through and Barda is todays Ganah’s Head coach. With 3 goals and 7 assists while he is only 19 years old Ganah is one of the most promised talents. People who saw Ganah in youth teams are saying he did not show even 60% of his talent.

In last decade, Beitar was one of the biggest talent producers in Israeli football, but the club had rough years and the youth department was the main affected.

The young midfielder has six goals and six assists within 33 games in his rookie it is no wonder Maccabi Tel Aviv offered 2.2 million $ for Yona but was rejected by Beitar.  

Roy Ravivo was known for being son of Israeli football legend Haim Ravivo. However, since last year Roy is known not only because of that. Revivo became the first choice for the left defender position which is not easy one in both Maccabi and Israel national team and it doesn’t seems he will be moved in the next years

During last season, he participated in almost 50 games, huge achievement for a 20 years old player. It’s only a question of time he will make an upgrade to bigger league.

As a youth player, German club Wehen Wiesbaden scouted Gandelman; before he came back to Israel for his military service, he signed a pre-agreement with Arsenal.

He has been a crucial member of the Israel U-21 national team and after successful 3 season at Netanya, he moved to KAA Gent from Belgian Pro League. The beginning want so easy and Gandelman but since he scored 4 goals against Charleroi he is getting much more credit and now after 6 games in the Pro League Play-off he has 5 goals and one assist.

For over the years Israel national team always suffered from lack of defensive players. Lemkin is one of the biggest hopes to stabilize it. Lemkin was also a part of the U-19 Israel national team, which made it to final of Euro 2022 U-19. He also was part of the Israel National U-20 team in 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which made it to the semifinals. In summer of 2023 he made is move to Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine and show is talent in the big stage of UEFA Champions League, but unfortunately he was injured at the beginning of the season for the rest of her.

Soon he will get back to training and hopefully, Israel national team will get her CB she needs so much.

After Oscar Gloukh left Maccabi Tel Aviv to Salzburg, the club needed new fresh talent. Turgeman was the one who compared to Gloukh although they are different players in almost all aspects. Turgeman made is breakthrough in the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup and especially remembered for his crazy goal against Brazil in the quarterfinal. This season is suffers from lack of minutes in Maccabi but even though he has eight goals. Hopefully it will get him the move he deserves so much.

How many times did you hear about a transfer from the Israeli league directly to the German Bundesliga? Probably not too much. Now how many times did you hear about a direct transfer from the Israeli league to the Champions of the German Bundesliga? Probably never.

This is what happened to Daniel Peretz. The young goalkeeper from Maccabi Tel Aviv who made his debut season only because the first GK of the team was injured and he played so good that when the first GK came back, no one could sit Peretz on the bench again.

A year ago, nobody in Israel knew who Anan Khalaily is, until he played for Israel National U-20 team in 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup campaign. He scored 3 goals, one of the them in the Quarter finals against Brazil during the historic 3-2 win of Israel.

After that campaign instead of being loaned to second division team, he got his place in Maccabi Haifa first line up for the 2023-23 season. He scored 8 goals this season, 2 of them against Fiorentina from the Serie A, not bad for someone who was anonymous a year ago. In March 2024 he signed a contract in Union Saint Gilloise from Belgium for €5 million which known as a club who develops youth talents.

Oscar Gloukh is the best rookie to come out of Israel in the past 3 years!

Gloukh is one of the most popular rookies of 23-24 round in all Europe, as he became main part of RB Salzburg, champions of Austria. He already scored twice in Champions’ League group stage and it is clear he is going to be one of the most wanted players this summer transfer window.

Gloukh grew up as young prospect in Maccabi Tel Aviv since he was in junior teams.in April 2022 He made his league debut against Maccabi Haifa, one of the biggest rivalry teams of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israeli league. He needed only 28 minutes to score his first senior goal. After less than a year, he moved in January 2023 to RB Salzburg for €7 million in a 4.5 years contract.

Gloukh was also a big part of the historic and super successful campaign of Israel U-21 in UEFA European Championship, which made it to the semifinal and lost only to England, which won the tournament.

There is no doubt he is someone to look on to!