The Israel Sports Association for the Disabled

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The Israel Sports Association for the Disabled

• Next Stop
• Paralympics Beijing 2008

www.IHF.net
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Paralympics Beijing 2008 Israels National Projec
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• About Us
• Athens 2004
• Preparations for Beijing Paralympics 2008
• Adopt An Athlete
• Adopt Our Gold Team
• Adopt our Gold Sailing Team

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About Us

• We would like to interest you in a most
  commendable undertaking and heartrending
  endeavor the rehabilitation of disabled Israelis
  through participation in sports.
• Some 650,000 people, roughly 12 of Israels
  population, suffer from physical disabilities.
  These horrifying numbers attest to three main
  factors wars, road accidents and crippling
  maladies from birth.
• Adding to our tragedy, over the last four years
  terrorism has dramatically increased our already
  swollen ranks of disabled Israelis.

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• The Israel Sports Association for the Disabled
  (ISAD) is the forerunner of a robust national
  effort to revitalize our incapacitated citizens
  through physical training at various facilities.
  
• We are the official Israeli Paralympic committee
  which is parallel to the Olympic committee of
  Israel.
  
• ISAD runs fifteen sports programs for the
  physically challenged sailing, swimming,
  athletics, basketball, weightlifting, shooting,
  fencing, hand cycling, horseback riding,
  wheelchair tennis, table tennis, archery,
  volleyball, goal ball and badminton.

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• These activities culminate in Israels
  participation in the international Paralympic
  Games, which are held every four years shortly
  after the Olympics.
• ISAD is the only national umbrella organization
  for sport activities for all the disabled
  organizations in Israel today.
  

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Athens 2004

• Recently, our Israeli team of disabled athletes
  who participated in the Athens 2004 Paralympics
  warmed the hearts of many Israelis when they
  returned home with 4 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze
  medals.
• Our achievements were rewarded with praise from
  President Moshe Katzav, Prime Minister Ariel
  Sharon, Limor Livnat, Minister of Education,
  Culture and Sport and other national sports
  figures.

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Preparations for Paralympics Beijing 2008

• In the afterglow of Athens 2004, ISAD has already
  begun preparations for Beijing 2008. The
  continued success of our national team depends
  largely on outside support to finance our
  athletes' training, equipment, facilities and
  transportation expenses.
• We hope to send a team of 50 athletes and
  trainers.
  
• Our athletes undying dream is to hear the
  sounding of the Hatikva the next time a member of
  the Israeli team wins a gold medal at the
  Paralympics.
• Due to the Israeli Government's budget cutbacks,
  our disabled athletes do not enjoy the financial
  backing they so richly deserve, and have to rely
  on outside support to pay for training
  facilities, coaches, equipment and transportation
  expenses.
• For this reason, ISAD seeks your
  participation and of Jewish communities and
  philanthropic organizations worldwide.
  
• We ask you to help them realize that dream, and
  thank you for your kind consideration of our
  request.

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Our Budget

• Income
• Annual support from the
• Israeli government- 350,000
• Annual Membership fees from our organizations
  - 150,000
  
• 500,000
• We will receive 300,000 in 2008

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Adopt An Athlete

• The cost of training one of our 10 athletes from
  our Gold Team towards Paralympics Beijing 2008 is
  50,000 a year.
  
• 150,000 an athlete all the way to Beijing 2008
• Annual Expenses Per Athlete-50,000
• Professional trainers physical fitness
  trainers- 15,000
  
• Medical expenses-Professional medical staff from
  the Wingate Institute-1,000
  
• Training camps in Israel and abroad-5000
• Preparation for Competitions worldwide-17,000
• Annual Scholarship for living expenses-12,000

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Adopt Our Gold Team

• The cost of training our Gold Team of 10 members
  towards Paralympics Beijing 2008 is 500,000 a
  year.
  
• Our athletes are either gold medalists, European
  champions or winners of other paralympic medals
  and awards.
  
• 1,500,000 all the way to Beijing 2008
• Annual Expenses Per Athlete -50,000
• Professional trainers physical fitness
  trainers- 15,000
  
• Medical expenses-Professional medical staff from
  the Wingate Institute-1,000
  
• Training camps in Israel and abroad-5000
• Preparation for Competitions worldwide-17,000
• Annual Scholarship for living expenses-12,000

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Adopt Our Gold Sailing Team

• Our team did it in Paralympic Athens 2008 by
  coming home with the gold medal. They are the new
  world champions.
  
• This is the group sport branch that has the best
  chance of winning medals in Beijing 2008.
  

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Our Gold Winning Team

• Dror Cohen Dror, served as a flight navigator in
  the IDF. His lower body was partially paralyzed
  in an automobile accident.
  
• A sailing enthusiast, he participated as a crew
  member in the Sonar competition in Sydney 2000,
  which came in eighth place, and won a silver
  medal in the 2003 European Championships.
• In Athens 2004, he led the Sonar crew to a gold
  medal.

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Our Winning Gold Team

• Beni Vexler Beni, (married with 4 children )is a
  disabled IDF veteran (amputee, below the elbow)
  from the war in the Lebanon War. As a member of
  the Sonar crew, he won a silver medal in the 2003
  World Championships and a gold medal in Athens
  2004.

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Our Winning Gold Team

• Arnon Efrati Aaron is a disabled IDF veteran
  (amputee, below the elbow) form the Yom Kippur
  war-has an officer in the . He has participated
  in many international competitions, was the
  skipper of the Sonar crew in Sydney 2000, and a
  member of the gold medal winning Sonar crew in
  Athens 2004.

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Adopt Our Sailing Team

• The cost of training our Gold Sailing Team
  Paralympics Beijing 2008 is 150,000 a year.
  
• 450,000 all the way to Beijing 2008
• Annual Expenses Per Athlete-50,000
• Professional trainers physical fitness
  trainers- 15,000
  
• Medical expenses-Professional medical staff from
  the Wingate Institute-1,000
  
• Training camps in Israel and abroad-5000
• Preparation for Competitions worldwide-17,000
• Annual Scholarship for living expenses-12,000

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Summary

• The cost of preparing for Paralympics Beijing
  2008 is 2,100,000 a year.
  
• All the way to Beijing 2008 will cost 6,300,000

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• The story of our physically challenged sports
  heroes who returned triumphantly from the
  Paralympics held in Athens, Greece is both
  heartrending and inspiring.
• It is a classic tale of the triumph of the human
  spirit over seemingly undefeatable physical
  obstacles.
  
• It is a saga that needs to be told and retold,
  both to Israelis and to Diaspora Jews.

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Do You Know That..

• Israels Paralympics heritage is one of the
  vital
  
• characteristics of our small state, which
  prides itself at
  
• overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds.
• Our disabled athletes have set a high
  standard they were winning medals at Paralympic
  events long before our able-bodied athletes won a
  single medal.
• For example, our disabled athletes returned
  from the 1988 Seoul games with such a proud
  display of gold, silver and bronze, that many
  Israelis questioned, .Why can't we do that
  in the Olympics?. In more recent Olympics, we
  found out that we most surely can.
• Which only leads one to conclude that our
  disabled sports heroes, with the support of
  ISAD,have set a most uncommon and wonderful
  example for
• all Israeli athletes.