Olympic medalist surfer Shahar Tzobari, who has represented Israel three times at the Olympics: Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, was elected today (Sunday) by the new Athletes Committee of the Israel Olympic Committee to chair the committee.
Zubari represented the Athletes Committee in the management of the Israel Olympic Committee.
He will replace Neta Rivkin, who served as the committee's chairman on the current board. In addition, Zubari will serve as a member of the Finance Committee of the Israel Olympic Committee.
Four athletes from the nine members of the committee: Shachar Tzobari, Yaakov Tomarkin, Hanna Kneizba-Minenko, who will join the Gender Equality Committee of the Israel Olympic Committee, and Linoy Ashram, represented the committee in the plenum of the Israel Olympic Committee.
The four elected Shahar Tzobari as chairman of the committee.
The other members of the committee are: Ilana Kartish who will be a member of the sports committee (the professional committee), Nofar Edelman will join the achievement sports director and Yuval Filo will be a member of the audit committee, Girma said and Andy Moraz.
"The management of the Israel Olympic Committee, which sees great importance in the involvement of athletes in the policy and vision of Olympic sports in Israel, welcomes the elected to the new management. The opinions and needs of athletes past and present are very important in initiating processes and decision making,"
