Joseph Sharav (Hebrew: יוסף שרב; 28 October 1934 – 15 June 2016) was an Israeli paralympic competitor in four Summer Paralympic Games (1964, 1968, 1976 and 1980) and won five bronze medals in para table tennis (1964 and 1968), shooting (1976) and wheelchair basketball (1964).

[1] Sharav was born in 1934 while his parents were on their journey from Afghanistan to Mandatory Palestine and was raised in Tel Aviv.

During his service in the Israel Defense Forces in the 1950s, he was injured in a traffic collision.

[3] He was one of the first Israeli representatives to the Stoke Mandeville Games and won a bronze medal in table tennis in 1956.

[4] He later took part in four Summer Paralympics and competed in various sporting events: Sharav was a member of Israel men's national wheelchair basketball team in the 1964 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal in the Men's Tournament A.