Israel Sports Association For The Disabled

The Israel Sports Association For The Disabled (Hebrew: ההתאחדות הישראלית לספורט נכים) is responsible for managing twenty Paralympic sports and for conducting all competitive and high-achievement disability sport activity in Israel. Its activities include operating the 20 Paralympic sports, organizing national leagues, the Israel championship and the State Cup for those sports, preparing Israeli national teams and participation in world/European championships, identifying and developing young athletes with motor disabilities and visual impairments/blindness, building multi-year work plans together with 'Athena' — the national project for the advancement of women's sport in Israel — and representing Paralympic sport in competitions in Israel and abroad. The Israeli Paralympic Committee operates by force of the international Paralympic charter granted to the Israel Sports Association For The Disabled in 1989; its members include disability organizations whose athletes are in Paralympic squads, an athletes' representative and public representatives. The Committee is responsible for preparing and sending Israel's delegations to the Paralympic Games, supports squad athletes and is professionally supported by the Elite Sport Unit, operates the Fund for the Advancement of Disability Sport, grants achievement scholarships to senior squad athletes according to qualifying achievement criteria, and accompanies outstanding reserve athletes and the 2024 squad with professional support.

The Israeli Paralympic Committee operates by force of the international Paralympic charter granted to the Israel Sports Association For The Disabled in 1989. The Committee's members include disability organizations whose athletes are in Paralympic squads, an athletes' representative and public representatives. The Committee is responsible for preparing and sending Israel's delegations to the Paralympic Games, supports squad athletes and is professionally supported by the Elite Sport Unit. It operates the Fund for the Advancement of Disability Sport, grants achievement scholarships to senior squad athletes according to qualifying achievement criteria, and accompanies outstanding reserve athletes and the 2024 squad with professional support. The Committee's activities include: (1) Paralympic Games — preparing the Israeli delegation for the Paralympic Games; (2) Representation — representing Israel in the various committees of the International Committee and the managements of leading sports; (3) Exposure and awareness — exposing Paralympic sport in Israel; (4) Elite Sport Unit — operating long-term professional programs to cultivate and develop disability sport in the country in cooperation with the Elite Sport Unit at the Wingate Institute and in cooperation with various bodies, associations and sports federations; (5) Training courses and conferences — producing and organizing training courses for coaches and various professionals in Paralympic sports. The Israel Sports Association For The Disabled is responsible for managing twenty Paralympic sports and conducts all competitive and high-achievement disability sport activity in Israel. Its activities include: (1) Sports — operating 20 Paralympic sports; (2) Leagues, Israel championship and State Cup — organizing leagues at national level, the Israel championship and the State Cup for 20 sports; (3) Israeli national teams — preparing Israeli national teams in 20 sports and participation in world/European championships; (4) Sport blossoms — identifying, developing and promoting young male and female athletes with motor disabilities and visual impairments and blindness; (5) Athena — building multi-year work plans together with 'Athena' — the national project for the advancement of women's sport in Israel; (6) International competitions — representing Paralympic sport in competitions in Israel and around the world.

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