Public lifeשושנה שרעבי

Shoshana Sharabi

Shoshana Sharabi was an Israeli Paralympic athlete who won gold medals in wheelchair fencing and wheelchair basketball.

1950 to 2018Paralympic wheelchair fencing gold medalsWomen's wheelchair basketball gold, 1968Women's basketball hall of fame

Born: 10 December 1950
Died: 1 October 2018
Occupation: Paralympic athlete, wheelchair basketball player, wheelchair fencer

Shoshana Sharabi was born in 1950

Shoshana Sharabi was born in Ganei Tikva on December 10, 1950. She contracted polio as a small child and was left disabled. She attended the Ganei Tikva elementary school and later Moreshet high school in Tel Aviv.

In 1963, encouraged by her parents, she joined the Spivak sports center for the disabled in Ramat Gan. At the 1968 Paralympics in Tel Aviv she won gold in wheelchair fencing and with the women's wheelchair basketball team. She also won silver in a wheelchair relay and bronze in the club throw.

At the 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg she won gold with the women's foil team and silver in individual foil. She was inducted into the women's basketball hall of fame.

She studied broadcasting at Kol Yisrael in Jerusalem and worked as a clerk, including at Tadiran. She later ran a children's clothing store in Ganei Tikva. She married Yossi and they had 2 daughters. She died on October 1, 2018.