By JNS

Israel won 10 medals, including four gold, at the 2024 Paris Paralympics which concluded on Sunday, in its best showing at the Games in two decades.

The competition followed the record-breaking seven Olympic medals awarded to Israeli athletes in Paris this summer.

Israel’s medal total at the Paralympics topped its performance at the Tokyo Games three years ago, when the delegation brought home nine medals, and marks Israel’s best showing since 2004, when it won 13 medals at the Athens Paralympics.

Israeli swimmer Ami Dadaon won four of the 10 medals in the French capital.

Israel also made history with its first Paralympic medals in both taekwondo and goalball—its first medal in a team sport in 36 years.

Both games were held against the backdrop of the 11-month war against Hamas in Gaza, and the heavily-guarded Israeli teams faced both threats and boycotts.

The news from France lifted spirits in Israel as the nation girded for a possible Iranian and Hezbollah attack this summer, and as the plight of the hostages held in Gaza weighed heavily on the Jewish state.

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Israel won a record seven medals in various sporting events such as sailing, judo, and rhythmic gymnastics despite multiple death threats to athletes and the ongoing war in Gaza and Lebanon.

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The Jewish state significantly outperformed the average of the top 50 medaling countries, per the JNS analysis.

By JNS

Israeli citizens have been significantly likelier to earn medals at the Olympics than are those from the leading two medaling countries, China and the United States, and they were more likely to earn gold medals than Chinese people were, but not Americans, according to a JNS analysis.

JNS studied the top 50 medaling countries—in descending order of gold medals—and it used the most recent population estimates for countries from the CIA World Fact Book.

Israel, which has a population of 9.402 million, per the CIA, earned one gold medal and seven total medals at press time. That means that one Israeli per 1.343 million medaled, and one Israeli per 9.402 million earned a gold medal.

The Jewish state significantly outperformed the average of the top 50 medaling countries, per the JNS analysis. On average, the top 50 countries had populations of 75.2 million—some eight times Israel’s population—and earned 6.26 golds and 18.56 total medals.

That meant that, on average, those in the top 50 medaling countries had a one in 5.877 million chance of medaling and one in 17.456 million chance of earning gold.

Israelis were 4.376 times likelier to medal than average, among top 50 countries, and were 1.857 times likelier to earn gold than the average.

The top two medaling countries at press time were China—which earned 40 golds and 91 total medals, or one per 35.401 million receiving gold, and one per 15.561 million medaling—and the United States, which earned 39 golds (one per 8.768 million) and 125 medals (one per 2.736 million).

Israelis were 11.587 times likelier to medal than were Chinese people, and 3.765 times likelier to earn gold. Citizens of the Jewish state were 2.037 times likelier to medal than were Americans, but Americans were 1.072 times likelier to earn gold than were Israelis.

According to the JNS analysis, New Zealand was the country, of the top 50, in which citizens were most likely to medal (one in 258,060), with Israel coming in 20th on the list. Jamaica was the country whose citizens were likeliest to earn gold (one in 2.824 million), with the Jewish state coming in 33rd on the list.

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