Sarah Avraham

Sarah Avraham was born in 1995 in Mumbai

Sarah Avraham was born in 1995 in Mumbai, India. Her mother, Ruth Malka, was a Christian nurse, and her father, Dr. Aharon Avraham, was a Hindu physician and the son of a Hindu priest. She has an older brother and a younger sister.

She studied at a mixed school with Hindu, Christian and Muslim pupils and was the school champion in track and field. Her father became interested in Judaism while studying medicine, and the parents raised their children as observant Jews. The family first had a Reform conversion in India.

Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, Chabad emissaries in Mumbai, helped prepare the family's move to Israel. After the couple were killed in the 2008 Mumbai attack, the family moved to Israel in 2009 and converted in 2010. They live in Kiryat Arba.

In 2011 she began training in Thai boxing with coach Eddie Yusupov, despite opposition from her family. She won the Israeli women's championship in 2012 and the world youth championship up to 63.5 kg in Bangkok in 2013. In 2014 she won the women's world championship up to 67 kg in Pattaya and a European gold medal in Romania.