Roni Daniel

Roni Daniel was born in 1947 in Baghdad

Roni Daniel was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1947. His father died when he was a baby. In 1950 he moved to Israel with his mother and grew up on Kibbutz Maoz Haim.

He joined the IDF in 1965 and served in the Nahal as a platoon commander and later a company commander. He fought in the Six Day War and the War of Attrition. In the reserves he commanded battalions and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Daniel joined Kol Yisrael in 1971 and soon became a military correspondent. He headed its news division in Tel Aviv from 1982 to 1984 and also worked at Galei Tzahal. From 1993 he covered military and security affairs for Channel 2 news.

His commentary took a hawkish line. Critics on the left, including Gideon Levy, said he echoed the army's views, and he rejected this. In 2010 he and Amnon Abramovich exposed the Galant document, later known as the Harpaz document.

From 2018 to 2021 he co-hosted the radio program The Cabinet on 103FM. He was married to Shlomit and had 3 children. He died in 2021.