Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman

Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman was born in 1963 in Casablanca

Hatuel-Zuckerman was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1963, one of 9 children of Jewish Moroccan parents. The family moved to Israel that same year and lived in Acre. Her father's interest in fencing led her and her siblings to train together.

She began fencing at age 8 and first won the Israeli title in 1979. She won it 20 times, 16 of them in a row, and entered the Guinness Book of World Records. She finished 8th at the 1991 World Championships.

The 1980 boycott kept her from the Moscow Games, and she missed Seoul in 1988 because the event fell on Yom Kippur. She placed 26th in 1984 and 23rd in 1992. In 1996 in Atlanta she carried Israel's flag and placed 13th.

She helped found the Israeli Olympic Athletes Committee in 1996 and sat on the Olympic Committee of Israel from 2004 to 2009. She chaired the Israeli Fencing Association from 2010 to 2012. She holds a master's degree in physical education and in 2018 earned a doctorate in education and sports management.

She has been married to Robert Zuckerman since 1989, and they have 4 children. Her brother Yitzhak Hatuel is also a fencer.