Avraham Tshuva (Hebrew: אברהם תשובה) is an Israeli journalist reporting on disabled sports events and a former athlete and member of the national wheelchair basketball team.
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.[2]
In the 1968 Summer Paralympics held in Tel Aviv, Tshuva competed in a wheelchair dash and in slalom.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
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