28 Friday, August 5, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Special Olympians Win Eight Medals
NEW YORK — With sev-
eral thousand spectators
watching and cheering,
members of the first Israeli
Special Olympics team
scored a fantastic eight
medal coup —four gold, two
silver and two bronze — for
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ternational Summer Spe-
cial Olympic Games. The
competition, entitled, "A
World of Winners," held in
Baton Rouge, La. July
12-18, was under the au-
spices of the Joseph P. Ken-
nedy Foundation.
Meir Rhaman, the first
gold medalist for Israel,
broke his own record for the
softball throw at the Special
Olympic Games. His coach,
Edna Medalia, of The Win-
gate Institute in Israel who
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Shown in the top photograph are, from left, AKIM
treasurer Mel Parness, executive director Michele
Bokobza, Israeli Ambassador Meir Rosenne, AKIM
president Paul Zuckerman and Sargent Shriver re-
presenting the Kennedy Foundation. In the bottom
photograph the AKIM representatives are shown
with members of the Israeli team.
accompanied the "athletes"
to Baton Rouge, said, "Meir
was happy and confident be-
fore the event, and then
went out and showed his
enormous determination."
Winners in the 50 meter
dash were: Moshe Varsano,
who won a gold medal,
Daphna Wittenberg and
Yona Gavra, who won silver
medals, and Ofra Ezra who
won a bronze medal. Eli
Ben-Simon won a gold
medal for the 50 meter race
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and a bronze medal for the
200 meter race.
•
The girls' relay team,
consisting of Aliza Twir-
din, Yona Gavra, Daphna
Wittenberg and Ofra
Ezra, won the 100 meter_
race.
The Israeli participants
in the Special Olympics
were sponsored by AKIM,
the Association for the
Rahabilitation of the Men- -
tally Handicapped in Israel,
which now has eight operat-
ing U.S. chapters (Chicago,
Detroit, Houston, Miami,
New Jersey, New York, Or-
lando, Philadelphia), with
plans for additional expan-
sion, under the coordination
of national director Michele
Bokobza.
AKIM is an acronym for
the organization's full name
and also means "I shall corn-
fort" in Hebrew. In its 32-
year history, AKIM has an-
nually cared for more than
25,000 children and adults
in Israel of all denomina-
tions.
"We are very, very proud
and delighted with our win-
ners," said Detroiter Paul
Zuckerman, national
president of AKIM U.S.A.
"We thank everyone
who made this dream a
reality, and we hope that
through the visibility of
our 'athletes,' we can
demonstrate the un-
limited potential that our
mentally handicapped
can realize with our
help."
Budget Cuts
- Harmful to
Science: Sela
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Michael Sela, president of
the Weismann Institute of
Science in Rehovot, warned
that Israeli science "stands
at a crossroad. The current
economic crisis must in-
evitably negatively affect
the future of scientific re-
search in this country."
Speaking at the insti-
tute's graduation ceremony,
Sela noted that all Israeli
institutions of higher learn-
ing now face drastic
budgetary cuts.
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