{"id":525654,"date":"2026-07-05T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:58:07","slug":"paris-olympics-2024-judo-medalist-paltchik-auctioning-gi-for-zaka-ptsd-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525654\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics 2024 judo medalist Paltchik auctioning gi for ZAKA PTSD treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli judo Olympics bronze medalist Peter Paltchik is auctioning off the judo gi he wore during the competition in order to fund PTSD treatment for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-900027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZAKA<\/a> volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a video announcing the auction, Paltchik described what the gi had been for him during his victorious moment at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I represented our people at the Paris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/sports\/article-898757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympic<\/a> Games, my gi, this fighting suit, was my physical armor on the world&#8217;s biggest stage,&#8221; Paltchik said. &#8220;It carries the sweat, the tears, and the unbreakable spirit of Israel&#8217;s historic first medal of those games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Paltchik explained, he was trading his &#8220;armor&#8221; to fund therapies, workshops, aid, crisis tools, and support for ZAKA members and their families struggling with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/mind-and-spirit\/article-900493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Real armor doesn&#8217;t just belong on the athletic mat. It belongs on the men and women of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/zaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZAKA<\/a>, who wear the yellow vests to protect our national dignity in our darkest hours,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The auction has a minimum bid of $50,000, and Paltchik announced he would personally call the winner to thank them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli judo Olympics bronze medalist Peter Paltchik is auctioning off the judo gi he wore during the competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14057,85,46,126657,43,6661,240270,106963],"class_list":["post-525654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-auction","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-judo-israel","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris-olympics-2024","tag-zaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}