Daniel Pe'er

Daniel Pe'er was born in 1943 in Tel Aviv

Daniel Pe'er was born Daniel Freudenreich in 1943. He attended the Balfour school and Ironi Alef High School in Tel Aviv. At 12 he began broadcasting on a youth program of the Kol Yisrael children's studio in Tel Aviv.

He served in the IDF as a psychotechnical interviewer. He studied Hebrew literature and English linguistics at the Hebrew University and earned a teaching certificate in English. He went on to graduate studies at the university's Institute of Communication.

In 1962 he joined Kol Yisrael as an announcer and newsreader, and in 1969 he became head of the announcers section. In 1971 he moved to television news, where he presented Mabat and Boker Tov Israel. From 1973 to 1983 he was a founder and the first host of the consumer program Kolbotek.

In 1979 he hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with Yardena Arazi. In 1983 he and Dalia Mazor presented the first color edition of Mabat. He also presided over the Israel Prize ceremony in 1998.

He retired at the end of January 2010 after 48 years of broadcasting. He was married and had 4 children. He died in 2017 after a stroke.