Moran Samuel[2] (Hebrew: מורן סמואל; April 24, 1982) is an Israeli paralympic basketball player and world champion rower.

In 2013, she played for Israel at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Frankfurt, with the team finishing in the seventh place overall.

Earlier that year, she won a race in single scull competition at the Adaptive Rowing Regatte in Gavirate, Italy, but the organizers did not have a copy of the Hatikva, Israel's national anthem; she asked for the microphone and sang it instead.

At the 2015 World Rowing Championships held in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, Samuel won the gold medal in the women's AS single sculls,[11] thus earning a spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

[16][17] She said: "we started today with terrible news [referencing the killing of six hostages in Gaza... and three police officers in the West Bank]...

It’s a privilege to be here in this bubble at the Paralympic Games, and to finish with a gold medal — and to be able to scream the anthem from deep inside me is a moment I’ll never forget in my life...