Pascal Bercovitch

Pascal Bercovitch ( _he. פסקל ברקוביץ') is an Israeli film director and a paralympic athlete.

Bercovitch was born in France and in her youth she was an athletics champion of Picardy. At the age of 17 she slipped while in a train station, amputating her legs by an incoming train. She was preparing at the time to immigrate to Israel, fulfilling her plans shortly later and volunteering to serve with the Israel Defense Forces. Following her military service she began practicing disabled sports, attempting to achieve the criteria for the 1992 Summer Paralympics.

In the early 1990's she began working in different fields of communications, becoming a journalist, writer and a film director, while still practicing sports and delivering her only child. As a journalist, Bercovitch dealt with disabled people, serving as a journalist on the subject in a morning television show and directing three documentaries, one of which on the Israeli delegation to the 2000 Summer Paralympics. Throughout these years she was practicing herself in abseiling, mountain climbing and wheelchair dancing.

Bercovitch was asked in 2007 to join the Israeli paralympic rowing team. While never practicing this sport, she had been given ten months to be included in the final list of participants to the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Her gold medal won in the World Cup competitions in Germany enabled her to do so.