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Rio Champ Donates Olympic Jacket For Special-Needs Children

by Touchpoint Israel
Rio Champ Donates Olympic Jacket For Special-Needs Children

Or (“Ori”) Sasson won a bronze medal for Israel at last summer’s Rio Olympics. The 25-year-old national judo hero donated his Olympic jacket to Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities.

At Shalva’s gala dinner on December 18, 2016, the coveted jacket was auctioned for $100,000 to benefit the range of free services offered by the award-winning association for hundreds of individuals from infancy to adulthood.

“A minute before I handed over the jacket, when it was still in my hand, I thought about whether I would miss having it,” relayed Sasson in a meeting with Shalva’s administration. “But then I thought about all the good it would do and realized that it has reached its ultimate purpose.”

PHOTO: instagram.com/olympicteamisrael

PHOTO: instagram.com/olympicteamisrael

The big-hearted judoka didn’t stop there. He also pledged to spearhead a therapeutic judo class for the approximately 250 children in Shalva’s afternoon program.

Shalva’s newly constructed national center in Jerusalem is considered to be the largest facility of its kind on earth. During a visit to the campus, Sasson left Shalva’s children with a message: “With perseverance you can accomplish anything.”

Originally posted at Israel21c.

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