Dany Cushmaro

Dany Cushmaro was born in 1968 in Israel

Cushmaro was born in Be'er Sheva and grew up there and later in nearby Omer. His parents, Korina and Adrian Cushmaro, came to Israel from Romania in the 1960s. He attended the agricultural school at the Eshel HaNasi youth village.

He served in the Israeli Navy and later remained a reserve major. He earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and management and a master's in business administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. As a student he wrote for a student supplement of the newspaper Hadashot.

In 1996 he opened the broadcasts of Radio Darom in Be'er Sheva and later headed its news department. In 2001 he joined the Channel 2 News Company as a presenter and editor. He presented the weekend news from 2003 to 2013 and began anchoring the main evening news in 2008, alternating with Yonit Levi.

In 2003 he hosted the broadcast of the Space Shuttle Columbia landing, which carried Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, when the shuttle was lost. He became the official host of Ulpan Shishi in May 2013 and made documentaries on Haredi enlistment and on divisions in Israeli society. He also writes on motorcycles for Yedioth Ahronoth, and in 2018 he was badly hurt in a motorcycle accident in Modena, Italy.