Amnon Weiss

Amnon Weiss was born in 1943 in Mandatory Palestine

Amnon Weiss was born in 1943 to Meir and Leah Weiss, from a family among the founders of Ramat Gan. As a child he had polio, which left him with a light disability.

In his youth he joined the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled and trained in several athletics events. At the same time he studied at Bar-Ilan University. He later earned an MBA at Tel Aviv University and taught marketing at Bar-Ilan.

Weiss competed with the Israeli team at the Stoke Mandeville Games and won 4 medals there in 1967. At the 1968 Paralympic Games in Tel Aviv he played on the wheelchair basketball team that won gold, and he won 3 medals in athletics.

He was a partner in Holland Israel, a company that traded in precious metals and jewelry, and sold his share in 1992. He then focused on real estate and in 2005 invested in founding Gvaot Winery.

In the early 1970s he and his wife Daniella were among the founding members of Gush Emunim. Since 1975 they have lived in Kedumim, where Daniella headed the local council. Their son-in-law Avraham Gavish was killed in a terrorist attack in 2002.