Delila Hatuel

Delila Hatuel (; born November 15, 1980) is an Israeli Olympic foil fencer. She represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was at one point ranked ninth in the world.

Biography Hatuel was born in Acre, Israel, in 1980. Her brother Maor is also a fencer, as is her aunt Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann and her uncle Yitzhak Hatuel.

In July 2007, Hatuel finished sixth in individual foil at the European Fencing Championships, in Ghent, Belgium. Throughout 2008, she finished in the top 10 in the Fencing World Cup circuit, and was ranked in the top 16 in the world. She underwent treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Beer Yaakov, Israel, so that she would be well enough to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Exposure to oxygen under high pressure speeds up the body's natural healing process. Hatuel tied the match with less than a minute remaining, and was defeated in overtime. Hatuel later said: "I'm sad, but this loss has nothing to do with my injury. I lost in a tight match." However, a reporter for Haaretz said "it seems that Hatuel's knee injury was agonizing".

In 2014 she won the European Games Baku Senior Women's Foil Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary.

She took 24th at the 2015 European Senior Women Foil Championships in Montreux, Switzerland, and 31st at the 2016 European Senior Women Foil Championships in Torun, Poland. `

Hatuel was ranked 9th in the world in 2016, and qualified to fence in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio in Women's foil by virtue of her performance at the Championnats De Qualification Europeans on April 16, 2016, in Prague, Czech Republic.