Reeve offers hope to Israeli patients

PATIENTS at Tel Hashomer rehabilitation centre in Israel had no time for Superman, only for Christopher Reeve, arguably the world’s most famous disabled man and now an ambassador for scientific research.

The pictures some of the patients in a hospital near Tel Aviv have pinned up above their beds are not of the caped wonder, but of the 50-year-old, balding and wheelchair-bound paraplegic who stunned the medical world this year by recovering some sensation in his body.

The actor who also starred in “Deathtrap” and “Remains of the Day” was paralysed from the neck down in 1995 after a horse riding accident.