Eduard Meron

Eduard Meron (or Edward Maron; , ; born 1938) is an Arab-Israeli former Olympic weightlifter.

Personal life He was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine.

Weightlifting career Meron competed for Israel at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, in Weightlifting--Men's Bantamweight. He came in 18th, after lifting a total of 270 kg in his best lifts in military press, snatch, and clean & jerk. When he competed in the Olympics he was tall, and weighed .

He said in 2012 that he was certain that Israeli Olympic representation, which has seen few Arabs, is determined only according to criteria: "There’s a minimum you have to meet, and if Arab athletes didn’t meet the minimum, that means that they weren’t good enough."