Moshe Nussbaum, a News 12 reporter, was interviewed today (Saturday) by the news company where he works, and talked about the ALS disease (muscular degeneration) he suffers from. At the beginning of the interview, he was asked when he started to realize that something was not like the day before yesterday, and he answered while watching a report from September 2021: “In retrospect, there is no doubt that I am already speaking slowly here. In my experience, I am speaking normally here.”
He also repeated: “As usual with me, the ones who noticed were Nauka (his wife) and the children. They were the first to tell me, ‘You speak more slowly.’ Moreover, texts for an article I once wrote no longer enter my mind.”
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In response to the claim that already a year ago, questions arose regarding his speaking rate, the reporter explained that “I started to hear the editor of the edition more and more in her ears even before I had enough time to finish what I planned to say – ‘Thank you Nosy, thank you.'” At this point our CEO Avi Weiss tells me In our personal conversation ‘try to check. Don’t give up'”.
Nussbaum admitted that the token fell when the doctors told him that, apparently, he had suffered a stroke. “We are trying to reconstruct what could have caused this,” he recalled, “at a demonstration in Balfour, in July 2020, the Makhtazeit operator for some reason aimed at me. He hit me from behind and then I slip but don’t fall. I manage to brake. This resistance to water flow is so powerful – perhaps it is caused by this. I have to tell you that now the trend in the field of ALS research is that what causes the disease to break out is physical trauma.”
The veteran journalist said that he did not research the disease and its consequences, but that he is now under the care of two professors, experts in the field, and that is enough for him: “Overall, the assessment is quite uniform. I am in the very initial stages of the disease. It may be that I am not excited because I am not I don’t feel anything other than the difficulty in speaking,” answered Nussbaum, “and because I continue to do everything, including my work, which is speaking, it might give me a drive to keep my sanity, which by the way, those around me don’t have.”
Towards the end of the interview, Nussbaum emphasized that for the time being he continues his work at News 12 unchanged: “It was clear to me and to all those close to me that as much as I can, I continue to work. Without work, I get lost. From the beginning, I prepare short and timed reports for myself so that I don’t get dragged into the segment that I I’m starting to feel suffocated. I stay on the screen to keep my sanity. I’ve come to the decision that I continue until I’m told enough is enough or until I feel physically that I can’t do it anymore.” He also said on the same topic: “I don’t want to survive – I want to live. For everything that implies. I want to continue doing things I’ve done up to now, and I want to do more things that Nauka and I have planned.”
To the question of how he still unloads the load, he replied: “I’m going to the Maccabi Netanya game. Traveling with Nauka – anything, just don’t engage in it. She and I still have to give birth to a few grandchildren. We have a very clear goal and we will achieve it , both of us. Unequivocally.”