Background
Sasson was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is Jewish.
Sasson was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and is Jewish.
He lives in Netanya, Israel, and studies Business Administration at Ruppin College. Sasson started training in judo when he was eight years old. His coaches are Gill Offer and Oren Smadja, his club is Meitav Jerusalem, and he started competing in 2005.
He has worked with Noam Eyal, a sports psychologist who works for the Olympic Committee of Israel.
In September 2011 he competed in the Judo World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where Iranian Javad Mahjoub was slated to face him, but refused. He lost to 159 kg (351 lb) Adam Okruashvili of Georgia in the final.
In June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg (+220 pounds) category in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sasson won a silver medal for Israel in the inaugural European Games, and in doing so won the silver medal in the 2015 European Judo Championship. Sasson won the Israeli judo championship at −100 kg (−220 pounds) in 2007-2009 and 2011, and at +100 kg in 2011 and 2012. In July 2009 Sasson won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel, in judo at −100 kg. In February 2012, he won a gold medal in the World Cup Prague in judo at +100 kg. In February 2013 and the following month, Sasson won gold medals in the European Open Tbilisi in Georgia and the European Open Warsaw at −100 kg. In September 2014, he won a gold medal at the European Open Tallinn in Estonia at +100 kg, as he weighed approximately 115 kg and returned from surgery on an injured thumb. On 26 June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg category (while weighing 120 kg (265 lb)) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sasson won a silver medal for Israel in the inaugural European Games, and in doing so won the silver medal in the 2015 European Judo Championship.
