Elham Mahamid Ruzin

Elham Mahamid Ruzin was born in 1990 in Umm al-Fahm

Elham Mahamid Ruzin was born on 16 February 1990 in Umm al-Fahm to a Muslim Arab family. She is the eldest daughter of six children. As a baby she was diagnosed with achromatopsia, a hereditary eye disease that left her legally blind and color blind.

She did national service at a legal aid clinic in Jerusalem. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and theater from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2016 she completed a master's degree in psychodrama therapy at Seminar Hakibbutzim.

She began playing goalball at 15 at a club for the blind in Umm al-Fahm. A women's national team was formed around her, and she was its captain from 2010 to 2018. The team won gold at the 2015 IBSA World Games, where she scored all 4 goals in the final against China.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics she scored Israel's first Paralympic goal in the sport. She won European Championship bronze in 2017 and silver in 2019, then played at the Tokyo Paralympics. In 2024 she won a silver medal with the team at the Paris Paralympics.

In 2018 she married Michael Ruzin, captain of the Israel men's goalball team. The couple has 2 children and lives in Hadera.