Prominent Israeli journalist Oren Nahari has died at age 70, less than a year after announcing he had been diagnosed with ALS and days after his final radio broadcast.
Nahari served for many years as a foreign affairs reporter and news anchor on the now-defunct Channel 1, as well as on Reshet Bet Radio.
In recent years, he had been hosting the popular “A Year in an Hour” podcast and radio program about 20th century history.
Nahari also had a Saturday morning radio program, “Shabbat with Oren Nahari.” This past Saturday he announced on air that it would be his last program, saying “the disease is progressing quickly. It’s hurting my breathing, swallowing and speech systems, and I will not be able to go on broadcasting.”
“I’m not saying goodbye to the world yet, only to the studio and the microphone. To this frequency that was with me for so many years. The stories will continue to be written without me.”
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