The mother of an Israeli reporter who fainted on air while reporting from the UAE, apparently due to heatstroke, says she panicked and thought he had been attacked.
“I thought he had been stabbed,” says the mother of Channel 13’s Doron Herman, who passed out during a live broadcast on Sunday.
Doron Herman (bottom right) keels over while on air in Dubai during a Channel 13 news broadcast on August 16, 2020 (screenshot)
When she received the video on WhatsApp, “I went to throw up,” she tells Channel 12.
In a follow-up message on his Facebook page, Herman says he’s fine and gives a shout-out to his mother.
Later, on the nightly news, Herman explains that “the heat is insufferable… I’ve learned my lesson. Today, I’ve been drinking all day.”
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