64 Friday, September 9,1983
False Charges
Veteran emigration ac-
tivist Feliks Kochubievsky
of Novosibirsk was arrested
last September and charged
with "circulation of fabrica-
tions known to be false
which defame the Soviet
state and social system."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Disabled Master Tennis
By CAROL NOVIS
From Israel Scene
Koby Weiner had polio as
a child and developed
scoliosis, a deformity of the
spine, when he was growing
up. Now, aged 30, he walks
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with crutches and obviously
finds getting around no easy
matter. •
Yet Weiner manages to
whiz around a tennis court
with ease and plays a tough,
aggressive game.
"I feel I have power when
I play tennis," he says. "It's
another world — hard, but
good. I play as often as I can,
sometimes four times a
week, five hours at a time."
He searches for words to de-
scribe the attraction, and
settles for the Hebrew slang
"shigaon." Crazy!
That is not an unsuita-
ble description for the
game of wheelchair ten-
nis, a relatively new sport
which has given a new
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rael's handicapped.
The wheelchair tennis
craze began in Israel about
a year ago, when Sasson
Aharoni, sports coach of the
Ilan Sports Center for the
Handicapped in Ramat
Gan, first heard about the
sport.
Aharoni, who is himself
disabled, thought, "Why not
us, too?" and contacted the
nearby Israel Tennis Cen-
ter.
"They were wonderful to
us," he says. "They still are.
They provided us with rac-
quets and a coach and gave
us free court time one eve-
ning a week. Twenty of us,
men and women, joined the
group and we started play-
ing."
Wheelchair tennis is
played according to the
ordinary rules of tennis
except that the ball is
allowed to bounce twice,
and matches are limited
to single sets of up to nine
winning games.
Special light wheelchairs
are used, which make ma-
neuvering relatively easy,
but which make falling
easier, too. Spills in the
game are far from uncom-
mon, but they don't seem to
deter players.
The popularity of the
wheelchair game among the
players from the Ilan Sports
Center soon outstripped the
ability of the Israel Tennis
Center's facilities, and
eager players started plead-
ing with Aharoni to provide
facilities at their own sports
club.
"We opened a makeshift
tennis court on our basket-
ball cou-ft in the hours when
it wasn't being used for bas-
ketball," says Aharoni, "but
that wasn't enough because
we have 10 basketball
teams and not enough time
left for tennis.
"Sometimes people
wait for hours. I tell them
to go home, but they beg
me to let them play from
10 p.m. to midnight. 'We
love it!' they tell me."
Within months, 40 people
were involved in wheelchair
tennis and Aharoni felt it •
was time to organize Israel's
first national wheelchair
tennis tournament.
The meet took place in
October at the Israel Tennis
Center and was generally
acknowledged to be of re-
markably high standard,
with 18 players chosen to
take part.
The winner of the five-
day meet was Moshe Levy, a
30-year-old salesman,
whose wife shares with him
a medical history of child-
hood polio and a love of
sport.
Babi Yar Massacre Recalled
JERUSALEM — Israel
issued a stamp last year to
commemorate the tragedy
of Babi Yar.
On Sept. 29-30, 1941, the
Nazis and their henchmen
led the 70,000 Jews of Kiev
— men, women and chil-
dren — to Babi Yar, a
ravine outside the city,
where they massacred them
and buried their bodies in a
communal grave.
This slaughtering place
was one of the largest of
many in German-occupied
Russia.
Yosef Kuzkovski, in his
painting "Babi Yar" (the
"Last Way"), graphically
depicted the last hours of
a group of Jews being led
to their deaths — their
terror; their fear of the
The painting was pur-
chased for Israel and hangs
in the Knesset. It was the
focus of the Babi Yar com-
memorative stamp.
Kuzkovski was born in
Russia in 1902 and studied
art at the Kiev Academy of
Arts. He achieved recogni-
tion in Russia as an out-
standing artist and held
numerous one-man shows.
After a protracted fight
for the right to leave Russia
and immigrate to Israel, he
finally attained his goal. -
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Levy, an all-round
athlete, is a member of Is-
rael's paraplegic basket-
ball team and holds four
Wheelchair • Olympics
swimming medals, too.
But since his introduction
to wheelchair tennis, Levy
has given most of his leisure
time to this new sport.
A former fencing cham-
pion, Aharoni also plays
tennis now.
unknown fate awaiting
them; their hope that
"maybe it will not ... ";
their resignation to their
fate; the sadism of their
guards who hem their
victims in with guns and
vicious guard dogs.
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