Nadav Levi claimed his Olympic spot as one of top 12 individual eligible boccia player in the BISFed 2016 World Rankings as of 30 April 2016.

[9] Israel earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy.

[10][11] One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event.

Israel qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the AS Women's Single Sculls event with a first-place finish by Moran Samuel in a time of 05:25.920.

They qualified a second boat in the TA Mixed Double Sculls event with an eighth-place finish by Tsofnat Levanon, Barak Hazor, Nissim Nir Mayo, Shay-Lee Shulmit Mizrachi and cox Danielle Renny Palatin in a time of 04:12.140.

[20][21][22] Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.