Coyle started as a radio reporter, but in the early 1990s he moved into public relations.

Israeli television and radio reporters treated his words as a revelation.

"We have to go on the welfare," one driver told a radio reporter.

Another radio reporter said: "Yes, things are bad, but just be relaxed.

Their support got her through law school, which she started after a career as a radio reporter, she said.

"He took the freight elevator up," a radio reporter said.

A description by one radio reporter went around the world: 'Get out of the way!'

"I was afraid last night but not now," a young girl told the radio reporter.

As one dutiful dad recently explained to a radio reporter: We do this, but it isn't much fun.

Israeli radio reporters said tonight that the government had responded to pressure from Washington.