One of the team members, Moran Samuel, is a para-rowing champion who was on Israel’s national women’s basketball team, before she suffered a stroke at 24.
For the first time, an Israeli rowing team is being represented in the Head of the Charles Regatta, the world’s largest two-day rowing event.

Rowing World Cup on lake Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland, July 8, 2011 – Photo: AP
The event was being held Saturday and Sunday on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.
The annual event attracts over 11,000 athletes from around the world and 400,000 spectators who line the banks and bridges of the river near Harvard University.
















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