Neora Even-Zahav

Neora Even-Zahav (; born 11 October 1947) is a former Israeli Paralympic competitor in para-athletics, archery and wheelchair basketball.

Biography Even-Zhava, née Helsinger, was born in Bucharest and emigrated with her family to Mandatory Palestine at the age of four months, arriving only after detention at the Cyprus internment camps. At the age of eight she contracted polio and in 1961 she joined the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled. She also won two bronze medals for wheelchair fencing and for para swimming.

As a member of the national women's wheelchair basketball team she took part in the 1968 Summer Paralympics, the 1984 Summer Paralympics and the 1988 Summer Paralympics. In 1968 she also competed in archery and in para-athletics, winning two silver medals and one bronze medal in various wheelchair race events (wheelchair dash, slalom and in wheelchair relay race alongside Batia Mishani, Shoshana Sharabi and Geula Siri).

Family Her father Moshe Helsinger was a player of Maccabi București.

In 1967 she married Paralympic athlete Israel Even-Zahav.