Avraham Tshuva
Avraham Tshuva () is an Israeli journalist reporting on disabled sports events and a former athlete and member of the national wheelchair basketball team. Biography
Avraham Tshuva, disabled by polio, has been a member of the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled since 1961. A certified basketball coach by the Wingate Institute, for many years he coached the center's men's and women's wheelchair basketball teams. As a certified sports journalist he joined the center's administration as its spokesperson, also providing the daily newspapers with coverage on all aspects of disabled sports since the 1970s. In the 1968 Summer Paralympics held in Tel Aviv, Tshuva competed in a wheelchair dash and in slalom. He was also a member of the gold medal-winning men's wheelchair basketball team. In 2007 Tshuva was honored with a distinction by ILAN. In June 2011 he was elected as a member of the council of "BeMa'avak" – an umbrella organization for the rights of people with disabilities in Israel. References

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Living people
Paralympic athletes for Israel
Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Israel
Wheelchair basketball players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for Israel
Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
Israeli journalists
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
Israeli male wheelchair racers
Israeli men's wheelchair basketball players
Year of birth missing (living people)
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball