'iy' notation in 'phonetic' Hebrew

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Could anybody explain to me why in every Hebrew text with a pronunciation next to it (not IPA), the 'i' (IPA) sound is always written as 'iy'

I was thinking maybe for English speakers to differentiate from 'i'='aj'?

Thanks in advance! :)

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omrib profile picture omribNovember 2020

I'm not familiar with this convention. Do you have an example? I can think of situations where the transliteration would have YI (not IY). For example the word "Israel" in Hebrew would be transliterated as "Yisrael" to show that there is a Y sound and an I vowel on it.

But if you have an example of IY that would help.