Tim Cupal (51) led the ORF office in Israel for four years. Born in Vienna, he is a patchwork dad and gets up just after 5am every day. How does he live between terror, rockets and riots?
It was a very restless Easter in the Holy Land. Six dead, storming of the Temple Mount, terror, rocket attacks, riots, military mobilization. For the ORF man in Israel, this meant continuous operation: Tim Cupal at 7:00 am in the “ZIB”, Tim Cupal at 1:00 pm, Tim Cupal at 7:30 pm and then in the “ZiB 2”. In between on the radio. No free time, little sleep, many miles.
“I actually worked all day and drove back and forth between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv all the time,” the 51-year-old says of his Easter weekend. Not only did Ramadan, Pesach and Easter coincide, the country is also deeply divided internally after more than 100 days of a new right-wing government under Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Source: Krone
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