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| IPC code | ISR |
| NPC | Israel Paralympic Committee |
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Israeli athletes have participated in the Paralympic Games since 1960.
| Israel at the Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | ISR |
| NPC | Israel Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
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Israeli athletes have participated in the Paralympic Games since 1960.
Israel first competed in 1960, at the Summer Games in Rome, Italy. In total, Israel has won 133 gold medals at the Summer Paralympic Games.
The most successful Israeli Paralympian was Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum, who, between 1964 and 1988, won 31 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 15 were gold. Second successful Israeli Paralympian was Uri Bergman, who, between 1976 and 1988, won 15 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 12 were gold.
Tel Aviv was the host city of the 1968 Summer Paralympics, at which Israel finished third on the medal chart with 62 medals, of which 18 were gold. Israel is the only nation to have hosted Paralympic but not Olympic Games.
At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Israelis won a total of thirteen medals, of which four were gold. Izhak Mamistvalov won three medals (of which two were gold) in swimming, while Keren Leibowitz won four medals, of which one was gold, also in swimming. [1]
Israel made its debut at the Winter Paralympics in March 2022.
Host nation
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
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 1960 Rome | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
 1964 Tokyo | 7 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 7 |
 1968 Tel Aviv | 18 | 21 | 23 | 62 | 3 |
 1972 Heidelberg | 9 | 10 | 9 | 28 | 8 |
 1976 Toronto | 40 | 13 | 16 | 69 | 3 |
 1980 Arnhem | 13 | 18 | 15 | 46 | 12 |
  1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville | 11 | 21 | 12 | 44 | 19 |
 1988 Seoul | 15 | 14 | 16 | 45 | 18 |
 1992 Barcelona | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 38 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 52 |
 2000 Sydney | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 37 |
 2004 Athens | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 32 |
 2008 Beijing | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 53 |
| 2012 London | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 45 |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 74 |
| 2020 Tokyo | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 22 |
 2024 Paris | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 29 |
| 17 | 133 | 127 | 134 | 394 | 18 |
| No. | Athlete | Sport(s) | Years | Games | Sex | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum [5] | Athletics, Swimming, Wheelchair basketball, Table tennis | 1964–1992 | Summer | F | 15 | 9 | 7 | 31 |
| 2 | Uri Bergman | Swimming | 1976–1988 | Summer | M | 12 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| 3 | Joseph Wengier | Swimming | 1976–1988 | Summer | M | 9 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| 4 | Baruch Hagai | Wheelchair basketball, Swimming, Table tennis | 1964–1980 | Summer | M | 8 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Shlomo Pinto | Swimming, Wheelchair basketball | 1976–1988 | Summer | M | 7 | 9 | 2 | 18 |
| 6 | Moshe Levy (athlete) | Swimming, Wheelchair basketball | 1968–1988 | Summer | M | 7 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| 7 | Ora Anlen | Athletics, Swimming, Wheelchair basketball | 1968–1976 | Summer | F | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 8 | Batia Mishani | Athletics, Swimming, Table tennis | 1964–1968 | Summer | F | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | Malka Potashnik | Wheelchair basketball, Athletics, Swimming | 1968–1988 | Summer | F | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Ayala Malhan | Wheelchair basketball, fencing | 1968–1988 | Summer | F | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
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