Asaf Yasur

Asaf Yasur was born in 2002 in Jerusalem

Asaf Yasur was born on 17 April 2002 in Jerusalem. He is one of the 6 children of Revital and Lior Yasur. He grew up in Modiin and later moved with his family to Moshav Alonei HaBashan in the Golan Heights.

In 2015 he tried to take a ball out of the main electrical room of his moshav and grabbed a high-voltage cable. He was flown to Sheba hospital, where doctors amputated both his hands. His parents raised money for bionic hands, a journey filmed in 2016 for the TV program Uvda, and safety faults at Golan electrical sites were fixed after the film.

In 2016 Paralympic athlete Pascale Bercovitch introduced him to para taekwondo and to coach Yechiam Sharabi, who still trains him at the Sharabi club in Ramla. He later joined the Israeli national team. He does not use bionic hands or any prosthetics.

He won world titles in Istanbul in 2021 and in Mexico in 2023. In 2022 he reached first place in the world ranking. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics he beat Ali Can Özcan of Turkey 19-12 in the men's 58 kg final.

In 2026 he and judoka Inbar Lanir lit the flame of the Maccabiah Games. In July 2026 he married taekwondo athlete Noa Price.