Lioz Amar

My name is Lioz Amar, and I am the CEO and founder of Travaxy, accessible travel solutions. I am 42 years old, married to Nataly, and a proud father to 6 YO Amit. I am a paraplegic, an IDF veteran, who got wounded in 2001 during my army service, which included commanding and rookie instructing and field missions at the military police forces .

During my rehabilitation at the pool, I learned to function with my injury. I learned to swim and loved the feeling in the water when I didn't need any extra devices; I felt free and didn't stop swimming since. A few months later, I won first place in the Israeli championship in my category and won second place in the German championship. 

I was accepted into the Olympic team and represented Israel at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic games, ranked top 8 in the world. I got my diploma as a swimming instructor and coach from the Wingate Institute for physical education and sports on my way to Beijing. After retiring from professional swimming, I was the Paralympic swimming team's coach at Haifa's "Warriors house" for more than three years.

As part of my academic education, I've learned psychology and did a few courses in basic programming skills. Soon I'm about to finish a project managing course certified by Google. 

During the years as a disabled person who wanted to travel the world like everyone else, I've stumbled across multiple barriers that could have been avoided. From my own experience and difficulties, Travaxy was born (in the middle of 2019). Our incredible team and I started to build a one-of-a-kind, easy automatic B2B solution for travel agencies that transforms them into accessibility experts and allows them to serve the biggest and fastest-growing minority in the world.