Amnon Weiss

Amnon Weiss (Hebrew: אמנון וייס‎) is an Israeli businessman and a former paralympic champion.

:Amnon Weiss
Olympic medal record
Representing  Israel
Summer Paralympic Games
Athletics
1968 Tel Aviv Shot Put
1968 Tel Aviv Javelin
1968 Tel Aviv Discus
Wheelchair basketball
1968 Tel Aviv wheelchair basketball
Stoke Mandeville Games
Athletics
1962 Shot Put
1962 Javelin
1963 Javelin
1967 Shot Put
1967 Javelin
1967 Club throw
1967 Discus

Weiss has a light disability due to polio. In his youth he joined the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, where he practiced various fields of athletics alongside studies of psychology at Bar Ilan University. Later on he studied law.

A member of the Israeli delegation to the Stoke Mandeville Games, Weiss was a gold-medal champion in javelin and shot put.[1] Prior to the 1968 Paralympic Games he won four medals at the 1967 Stoke Mandeville Games (two silver, in shot put and javelin and two bronze, in club throw and discus) and was the national champion in shot put. At the Paralympic Games Weiss was a member of the gold-medal winning wheelchair basketball team and won three medals in athletics.[2]

In the early 1970s, Weiss and his wife Daniela were among the founding members of Gush Emunim, later settling in Kedumim where Daniela was elected to head the local council. Their son-in-law Avraham Gavish was killed in a terrorist attack in 2002.

Weiss was the owner of a goldsmith business, later dealing with real-estate[3] and in 2005 investing in the establishment of Gvaot Winery.[4]

References
  1. נכים מישראל הצטיינו בתחרויות בינלאומיות, מעריב, 13/8/1962 (Hebrew)
  2. Results for weiss from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)
  3. אלעזר לוין, אמנון וייס קנה חנות בכיכר המדינה בת"א ב-500 אלף דולר, גלובס Archived October 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. (Hebrew)
  4. ורד קלנר, ענבי זעם, גלובס, 7/10/2008 Archived October 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Hebrew).
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