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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Moran Samuel

Israeli Paralympic gold medalists (from left) Ami Dadaon, Asaf Yasur and Moran Samuel celebrate their wins at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. (Composite image; Lilach Weiss Rosenberg/Israeli Paralympic Committee)
September 8, 2024, 5:23 pm
Israel celebrates its best Paralympic showing in 20 years with 10-medal haul
Closing ceremony delegation to be led by flag bearers Ami Dadaon, who won four medals, and Gal Hamrani, captain of the women’s goalball team, which took a historic silver
By Amy Spiro
Israeli rower Moran Samuel celebrates winning gold in the women's single sculls at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on September 1, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)
September 1, 2024, 3:04 pm
Rowers take gold, bronze as Israel continues to rack up Paralympic medals
Champ Moran Samuel says the day, like the year, held mixed emotions; Druze rower Saleh Shahin, wounded in 2005 Gaza border terror attack, says he wanted to bring some ‘light’ to nation
By Amy Spiro
Israeli Paralympic rowers (from left) Moran Samuel, Saleh Shahin, Shahar Milfelder and Shmulik Daniel pose for a photo at the Paris Paralympics on August 22, 2024. (Reuven Magnagey)
August 28, 2024, 3:35 am
Facing threats, Israeli Paralympians aim for gold in swimming, tennis, taekwondo in Paris
27 athletes in delegation competing in 10 different sports, with ‘extra motivation’ while hearing echoes of the boycott calls which surrounded their Olympic counterparts
By Amy Spiro
A person rides a bicycle on an empty street as the sun sets on the first day of a three-week lockdown in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
September 6, 2021, 12:59 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 6 – On Rosh Hashanah eve, a look back at a year of COVID
Nathan Jeffay surveys how the Jewish state and its citizens coped with the virus over 5781, and Amy Spiro fills us in on Israel’s achievements at the Paralympics in Tokyo
By ToI Staff
Members of the Israeli Paralympic swimming team arrive from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ben-Gurion International Airport on September 5, 2021. (Flash90)
September 5, 2021, 6:48 pm
Israel celebrates trove of 9 Paralympic medals as Tokyo Games wrap up
Israeli athletes head home ahead of closing ceremony to arrive before Rosh Hashanah; ‘It’s great to see all of our hard work led us to success,’ says gold medalist Mark Malyar
By Amy Spiro
Israeli Paralympic swimmer Iyad Shalabi receives his second gold medal in Tokyo on September 2, 2021. (Keren Isaacson/IPC)
September 2, 2021, 2:32 pm
Israeli swimmers win 2 more gold medals at Tokyo Paralympics
Israel now has nine medals in 2020 Games, including six golds, after latest achievements by Ami Dadaon and Iyad Shalabi
By ToI Staff
Israeli swimmers Ami Dadaon (L) and Mark Malyar (R) compete in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, August 30, 2021. (Keren Isaacson/IPC)
August 30, 2021, 12:58 pm
Winning streak continues: Israeli Paralympics swimmers pick up gold, bronze
Israel’s medal haul now at 7; Ami Dadaon shatters his own world record, takes top prize; Mark Malyar wins his third medal, coming third in 100m backstroke
By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
Israeli swimmer Mark Malyar poses with his gold medal in the 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Paralympics on August 29, 2021. (Keren Isaacson/Israel Paralympic Committee)
August 29, 2021, 12:01 pm
Shattering another world record, swimmer Mark Malyar wins his second Tokyo gold
Israel’s Paralympic Games medal count stands at 5, surpassing its Rio haul with several medal opportunities still on the horizon
By Amy Spiro
FILE: Rower Moran Samuel after winning a silver medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, August 29, 2021. (Lilach Weiss/Israel Paralympic Committee)
August 29, 2021, 6:07 am
Israel snags 4th Paralympics medal as rower Moran Samuel wins silver
President Herzog hails ‘superwoman’; gold medalist swimmer Mark Malyar shatters another world record, advances to finals in 400-meter freestyle round
By ToI Staff
Athletes from Israel enter the stadium during the opening ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
August 24, 2021, 4:55 pm
Israeli athletes parade in empty Tokyo stadium as Paralympic Games kick off
Rower Moran Samuel and boccia player Nadav Levi serve as flag bearers for 33-member delegation set to compete in 11 sports as Games begin under pandemic’s shadow
By Amy Spiro and Agencies
Israel's Paralympic delegation to Tokyo poses for a photo with then-president Reuven Rivlin on June 23, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 19, 2021, 6:29 am
Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics
With 33 athletes in 11 sports, the Israel Paralympic Committee is hoping to improve on its Rio medal haul at the Tokyo Games this year
By Amy Spiro
Moran Samuel smiles after winning the silver medal in the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, on October 1, 2017. (Screen capture/Daniel Rowing Center)
April 11, 2021, 2:47 pm
Israeli Paralympic rower wins silver medal at European championships
38-year-old Moran Samuel finishes 2,000 meter race in 10:17:46 following close battle with rival and friend, Norwegian rower Birgit Skarstein
By ToI Staff
Moran Samuel smiles after winning the silver medal in the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, on October 1, 2017. (Screen capture/Daniel Rowing Center)
October 1, 2017, 9:57 pm
Israeli Paralympic rower wins silver at world championships
35-year-old Moran Samuel sets an Israeli record, finishing the 2,000 meter race in 11:20.81
By ToI Staff
Israeli Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro (Razi Livnat/Wikipedia)
September 16, 2016, 4:54 am
Swimmer Inbal Pezaro wins Israel’s 3rd Paralympics bronze
29-year-old from Kibbutz Yizrael, paralyzed in her lower torso in childhood, began swimming at age 5
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Moran Samuel in her medal-winning race in Rio, September 11, 2016 (IGOR MEIJER, courtesy Daniel Rowing Center)
September 11, 2016, 5:01 pm
Israel wins first medal at Rio Paralympics
Moran Samuel, victim of a rare spinal stroke 10 years ago, takes bronze in 1000-meter single sculls
By ToI Staff
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