Danny Kushmaro

Kushmaro has a spouse and two sons. He is a passionate motorcyclist. In June 2018, he was in a serious motorcycle accident in Modena, Italy.

In 2018, he covered the torch lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl, the Great March of Return and the inauguration of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

In 2017, he interviewed white supremacist Richard Spencer. Afterwards, one viewer published the phone number of the Israeli News Company, so others could criticise the channel for interviewing a neo-Nazi.

On 1 February 2003, he covered the reentry of the Columbia space shuttle, and thus the homecoming of Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. Ramon's father, Eliezer Wolferman, was present in the studio. During the initially festive broadcast, the contact with the shuttle was lost. After this was clear, Wolferman was sent out of the studio away from camera. Kushmaro announced the shuttle's disintegration, leaving Ramon and his six colleagues dead.

He started his career presenting at a local radio station in 1996. In 2001, he moved to the Israeli News Company. From 2003 to 2013, he presented Channel 2's Saturday news magazine. In 2008, he became the evening anchorman after Gadi Sukenik left. He and Yonit Levi alternately host the main news broadcast on weekdays. In 2012, he replaced Yair Lapid as permanent presenter of Studio Friday (Hebrew: אולפן שישי – ulpan shishi) after Lapid entered politics. He has also hosted morning television programs and produced several documentaries.

Danny Kushmaro (Hebrew: דני קושמרו ‎; born 10 May 1968) is an Israeli journalist, news anchor and television presenter.

Danny Kushmaro was born in Beer Sheva and grew up in the southern region of Israel. His parents immigrated to Israel from Romania in the 1960s.