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Disabled crash victim named as former wheelchair basketball player
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA disabled man hit and killed by a car while crossing a street in north Tel Aviv has been named as Akiva Katz, a wheelchair-bound IDF vet who represented Israel at the international Stoke Mandeville Games, which takes place in years the Paralympics do not.
Katz, 69, was on Israel’s wheelchair basketball team and represented Israel at the Stoke Mandeville tourney in Holland in 1981, according to the Ynet news site.
Israel’s wheelchair basketball team won gold at the 1980 Paralympics.
Police have opened an investigation into the crash.
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