Boaz Kramer

Boaz Kramer was born in 1978

Boaz Kramer was born in Israel in 1978 with arthrogryposis, a condition that limited his legs and his left arm. He spent much of his childhood at the Ben Shemen youth village, where his parents worked. As a child he began training at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, and he took part in swimming, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis.

Kramer studied medicine at Tel Aviv University and earned an M.D.

He began playing international tennis events in 2005 under coach Kobi Weiner. At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics he and Shraga Weinberg won silver in quad doubles, and in 2012 he won the World Team Cup with Weinberg and Noam Gershony. He reached the quarterfinals at the London 2012 Paralympics and was ranked 9th in the world that year.

Since 2011 he has been executive director of the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled in Ramat Gan. In 2012 Globes named him one of 40 promising young managers in Israel.

Kramer has been married to Shirley Faitelson since 2008 and they have 3 children. They live in Tel Aviv. In April 2025 he had emergency neck spine surgery at the Tel Aviv Medical Center after severe nerve compression.