Shalom Dlugatch

Shalom Dlugatch (; 16 September 1943 – 21 July 2018) was an Israeli weightlifter who participated in two Summer Paralympic Games.

Dlugatch was born during the Second World War in the Ural Mountains. In 1948 the family immigrated to Israel. He was active in the Israel ParaSport Center and took part in the Stoke Mandeville Games.

At the 1964 Summer Paralympics he gained two medals. He won a bronze medal as a member of the Israeli wheelchair basketball team. In weightlifting he won a gold medal after pressing 157.5 kg and set a new world record.

At the 1980 Summer Paralympics he won a bronze medal in weightlifting after pressing 207.5 kg.

Dlugatch was a political and social activist. In 1977 he was elected as chairman of a national association for the disabled.

He died in Petah Tikva in 2018.