Predictions about rain put him in suspense, the disconnection from the phone teaches him to be a father, and the weather delivery flows in his blood • The forecaster who breaks the stigma about winter
"Forecasters have a pick two or three times a year, and the rest is a few seconds at the end of the edition."
Elad Zohar
Photo:
Efrat Eshel
When was the last time you were very surprised?
"The corona surprised me a lot. A year ago we thought it was a small virus. I was supposed to record at a Purim party and I saw Prof. Sigal Sadecki say on television that it is not allowed to gather, that 100 people in one space is too much. She asked that there be no gathering of more than ten people and I was "I realized that if such a gathering is forbidden, it's going to be a long and super difficult event, not to end in one closure or 'we'll get through it at home' with arches and clouds and solidarity. This is a day I entered as usual and left in 'Mod Corona'."
When was the last time you disconnected from your mobile?
"Yesterday. In January 2019 a groundbreaking event happened in my life, I received a message about work matters that completely turned me on, I was in black bile. Something I really wanted did not work and I took it to heart. I left the house, and walking I thought what would happen if I read the message at nine? So, and it was better. From this insight arose 'Available Dad', a venture that started as a post I wrote, went viral and grew into TV and radio articles. On my desire for change, that instead of my children appearing in the story I will be present in their life story.I needed this event for their benefit, for the benefit of my presence as a parent.
"At first I was a fanatic. The phone was in a drawer and I bought a 'stupid' phone in case I needed an urgent call. Then Corona came and changed it, because we were very much at home and could not help but be with the phone, but I limited myself to a few hours of parenting. Not with the phone.Today if I owe a call I take a time out and go about my business.The real solution can not be extreme but flexible, with a lighthouse that does not mix things up and give children their place.Show them that it is possible without mobiles, even if it is an hour "By the way, it's very important. By the way, the reactions really surprised me. A lot of people started applying it in their lives, and one of the most prominent reactions was from women who tagged their husbands."
When was the last time you fulfilled a dream?
"A year ago, on my 36th birthday, when I came back to record. I have a great passion for music and as a teenager I was more concerned with what the DJ does than with my friends at parties. I listened for hours to mixes and the buttons stole me to Allah. In 2005 I was a DJ with a friend At a bar in Kfar Saba every week, but when it was over I did not touch it again for a long time, until in the spring of 2018 I met Avi Maran, a former DJ, who introduced me to the field. He invited me to a workshop with him, I was insanely enthusiastic, A DJ who works and earns, you have it.
"Pretty soon I found a place to record, the 'Silo' in Rishon Lezion of Chef Tal Cohen, and then I invested in my own equipment and on my 36th birthday I started recording in front of an audience. My first recording was "One of the most stressful events. My parents came, and also celebrities from the industry and I was under pressure. I said to myself, 'Here I am fulfilling the dream, Mama, what a fear!'. Since then I have been recording there every week and I have been absorbing events and bars, all the way to the Corona."
When was the last time you talked to people on the street?
"All the time. Full of people turn to me, almost every day. Yesterday in the writer someone said to me 'Come on, you're real.' I feel comfortable and open to talking to people, pleasant and comfortable for me to joke and I find a topic for conversation with anyone. Most ask Me on the forecast, although I have been presenting a daily program for almost four years (due diligence: for the section writer's corner in the program; Shaz).
"A forecaster is a persona and presenting a program is something eclectic, and I talk to people naturally. I have self-confidence in front of audiences."
When was the last time you said "I love you"?
"Last night and every night. I tell my wife's songs whenever I want, but I have to tell her every night, with a kiss and a whisper in my ear. Hopefully there will be an answer, if she has not fallen asleep already. Shiri is the anchor of everything for me - the anchor of the house, the anchor The emotional, the mental, the friends, the mother of my children.
"We have been together since 2008.
She wrote me ‘hi’ on Facebook and we talked, but at first we met as friends.
We went shopping, we went to buy shoes!
After three dates where there was no physical contact, on the fourth date the kiss came and Shiri says to this day that if I had not made a move there I would not have seen her again.
This kiss came from a deep place, I knew we were cooking a real, serious, quality and healthy relationship.
I had unhealthy relationships before, I wanted something different.
"Shiri is pregnant for the third time now, and we do not want to know the sex of the fetus, so that there will be a dimension of surprise. It will be a third child after six years from the previous birth, and I want to know nothing and discover only in the delivery room, as before."
When was the last time you volunteered for something?
"Last December. It was a soldiers 'wedding, at a lone soldiers' house in Petah Tikva. It's a house we adopt in the program and every Friday I pop in for food prepared by Chef David Gadz. One of the house's graduates got married at 'Corona Wedding' and I decided to volunteer at the wedding.
" A few hours before the event I still did not know if it would take place, but in the end I danced them until midnight and a half.
The guys broke up, and I had the great privilege of also making the bride and groom happy, also volunteering for soldiers and also engaging in something I love. "
When was the last time you were very scared?
"Last summer. One evening I was in the absorbing position at 'Silo' and I felt like I could not breathe. It was not an anxiety attack, I just felt a stab in the chest and difficulty breathing. It probably boiled inside me for some time, and suddenly I was wearing a mask and it was hard for me to breathe. It's a virus that puts me in health. I was sure I got a corona. In front of me I saw a lot of people together, talking, eating and not keeping my distance, and I felt weird, it's not over yet, and everyone here is Izzy and I'm part of it, partner. I felt dizzy, my heart rate and barely breathing , It was one of the scariest things that happened to me in my life.
"From that moment until the vaccination I had difficulty breathing.
I also suffered from it on the broadcast, I felt I had to 'go up' to breathe air.
I did everything I could, physiotherapy, walks, treatments, and only when I received the first dose of the vaccine did I feel relieved.
"I realized that I probably suffered from stress, because my psychology and body go together. I did a lot of tests, including coronary tests, echocardiograms, stress tests, lung photography, and found nothing. Two days after the first dose, suddenly, for the first time in months, I finally took a deep breath. "Until the end. I think the stress has reached me in depth, but today I returned to the gym and I am building my self-confidence again, so that my body will not fall apart."
When was the last time you regretted something you did not do?
"I'm sorry I did not cut myself from a destructive relationship I had to get out of about 15 years ago. I have small regrets in life, like everyone else, but I deeply regret this relationship. For years I apologized to my mother on Yom Kippur for not being there for her at times Hard in her life because I was in a bluff of blind, mute and deaf love.My parents were after divorce and my mom got sick and needed me, and I was mine.When it was over, and we ended it mutual, I felt like a baby.I lay on my mom's lap in hysterical crying and begged her forgiveness. There was no norm between me and my parents of 'Mom, I love you' or 'Dad, I love you', and I strive to change that in myself. Even today I can not tell my parents that I love them. Of course I love them, but it's It's weird to say, but I'm rarely successful. It's stuck.
"In that relationship we were about 25 years old and together a little over half a year.
It was an unhealthy friendship for both parties.
There was no violence, but there was a lot of jealousy on both sides.
I know I was not me.
There were explosions upon explosions, quarrels and a feeling of something being eaten from within.
It's not new that there are relationships that do not work, but I snatched it hard and years there was not a day that did not pass in my head.
I imagined her walking next to me, crossing a crosswalk in front of me, I had a hard time letting go, not because I wanted her back but because I was traumatized.
"Jealousy was foreign to me, and I was jealous. The big flag above that was that I was jealous, and I'm not such a person. I was eaten inside, it was something quiet that ate me. I did not deny her anything and I did not shout, I am a nonchalant and non-violent type, but I was jealous."
When was the last time you were moved to tears?
“This year, when an interviewee came to the program who is the mother of a student I taught in school.
In the years 2009-2008 I taught at the School of Nature in Tel Aviv the subjects of environment, sustainability and geography, and I had a fourth grade student who was an insanely talented and smart kid, a dream of every teacher, but socially he was an outsider.
As a professional teacher I strengthened him at every opportunity.
This woman told me during the commercial break that she is his mother, and that today he is the CEO of a large food chain. I cried and moved from the frame with excitement, it flooded me like a tsunami. I saw in this child all the children who are not good, sometimes weak and on the side, different. And I was happy for the boy who was different in fourth grade and is now a cannon in the industry. "
When was the last time you changed a course in life?
"In 2016, I met Uriah Tzangan (Chief Producer of Network 13; Shaz) and he gave me the biggest opportunity of my career.
I did not think at all about changing direction, I was a forecaster with a slot at the end of an edition with a 30 percent rating, and Uriah changed my life.
He gambled on a start-up, on Elad and Noa Rosin, a combination that has been going on for four years.
I left the news, joined Network 13 and I do a role that fills my entire spectrum of skills.
A place of pan, listening, excitement, interest, humor, a place where you remember not to take yourself so seriously. "
When was the last time you were wrong?
"Everyone is sure that forecasters really like winter, but I do not tolerate winter. Before rainy systems I would get into tension, I knew the resin of expectations and the load would rise at once in the peak, and then you would be forgotten. I went with huge snow boots in Neve Ilan at half a meter snow In August, one time you can not breathe and the second time you can scream and no matter what you say. Many reporters feel this way and it is noticeable in the forecasters, who have a peak two or three times a year and the rest is a few seconds at the end of the edition.
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I believe the forecast is important information and it is also my professional anchor.
The majority recognize me as a forecaster to this day, and it is an amazing tool to get people through it.
The forecast is important, people listen to you, what to wear, whether to go on trips or hold events and weddings.
I make a prediction in the 'Forecast of the Day' story and in the program.
I will not give it up. "
When was the last time you cried?
"Two years ago I wrote a children's book in a drawer and in our decade of marriage, last November, we made a small soap dish for up to ten people. Shiri put it in a gift envelope for me and when I opened it I discovered the children's book I wrote, printed and illustrated. I cried for ten minutes in front of the people closest to me. "Was psychic. Noa Rosin gave her the brilliant idea to print the book for me. I plan to turn it into a commercial book for sale to the general public."
When for the first time?
When did you first appear on television?
"Lag B'Omer 2004, which had a heavy rain, was my first time on the Channel 10 forecast. I was freshly discharged from the army and brought all my guys to watch the result in the living room of the house.
I was so embarrassed, it was my first recorded forecast, which lasted about a minute, and I ran away from the living room as they watched.
I hid and plugged my ears, hoping it would pass, and they watched.
At the end everyone was very kicked out of me and then we did on the fire, we made it a celebration because I was on TV and it was wow.
I remember a silly sentence I said there, that to this day I laugh at myself, 'Whoever sits next to the fire is expected to have a hot night', because there was a fire, yes?
But it's so stupid, they're by a campfire. "
Elad Zohar // 37 years old, TV presenter and forecaster, resident of Petah Tikva.
Married to Shiri, project manager at Strauss Water, and father to Ron (8) and Gil (6).
He began his career as a forecaster on Channel 10 in 2004, and in 2010 joined the Channel 2 news company, where he worked as a forecaster and reporter.
In 2017, he left for "Reshet" and began presenting the program "Opening a Day" with Noa Rosin.
Since 2019 he has been regularly recording in bars and restaurants
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