Katz fell ill at the age of three months with polio which affected her lower limbs.

For nine years she was treated in a hospital in Jerusalem and at the age of nine she returned to her parents' home in Rosh HaAyin .

As part of her medical rehabilitation, she began competing in disabled sports and participated in swimming, fencing and wheelchair basketball competitions.

Katz lives in Petah Tikva and is the head of the municipal framework of the national program "Accessible Community" which works to implement a law of equal rights for people with disabilities.

At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in women's wheelchair fencing foil team.