Boaz Kramer, at The Blogs

Boaz Kramer

Jul 6, 2025, 3:15 PM

Every child dreams of being Steph Curry, or Roger Federer. No one dreams of being a wheelchair basketball player, even the best ones in the world. In fact, everyone’s dream is literally NOT to be in a wheelchair at all. Ever. In...

Jun 23, 2025, 10:16 AM

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Ninety seconds

If you're wheelchair-bound, and you can't make it down the stairs to a shelter in time, the rest of us need to change that; our values demand it

Jun 4, 2025, 8:43 PM

Ode to a lioness

This wasn’t what I planned. My new Times of Israel blog was supposed to be about Paralympic sports, insights and interesting angles of the wonderful world of adaptive and competitive sports, about classifications, history, and inside information on the...

Apr 28, 2025, 6:10 PM

How spinal surgery changed my mind on disability’s great debate

I’m “writing” (speech to texting) this blog post lying in a hospital bed — Room 22, Bed W (for “window”) — in the neurosurgery department of the Tel Aviv Medical Center (Ichilov). I was just brought up here after...

Mar 18, 2025, 4:34 PM

If we ever see a Paralympic sport in the Olympics, it will be wheelchair tennis

I don’t think that California native Brad Parks, who was paralyzed from the waist down following a ski accident and invented wheelchair tennis in 1976, ever imagined that 40-something years later, his sport would be featured in all four...

Feb 26, 2025, 3:34 PM

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We don’t want you to ‘include’ us, but thank you

Forget Jewish Disability Awareness Month – the reason I can’t go to that trendy restaurant is not my wheelchair, it’s the freaking stairs!

About Me

Boaz Kramer is a two-time Paralympian and a silver medalist in quad wheelchair tennis from the 2008 Beijing Games. Born with arthrogryposis, he has been involved in adaptive sports since age five and has served as Executive Director of the Israel ParaSport Center in Ramat Gan since 2011. He is a board member of the Israel Paralympic Committee and chairs the Israel Paralympic Wheelchair Tennis Committee. Boaz lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and three children.