Israel snags 4th Paralympics medal as rower Moran Samuel wins silver | Timesofisrael

Rower Moran Samuel won Israel’s fourth medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on Sunday, picking up a silver in the women’s 2,000-meter single sculls.Samuel, 39 — a former member of Israel’s national basketball team until 2006, when she suffered a spinal stroke and became paralyzed in her lower body — was one of Israel’s flagbearers at the international event. She took home a bronze medal in Rio five years ago, and another bronze at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.