PABLO DUER, ARGENTINE CORRESPONDENT WITH AN IMPORTANT PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY IN ISRAEL
JOURNALISTIC VOCATION AND INSPIRATION
Last Tuesday, October 20, we had the pleasure of interviewing Pablo Duer: a journalist from our country, who currently resides in Jerusalem (Israel). Nowadays, he is a messenger in charge of reporting everything that happens in the country in terms of politics. What made him choose that career was people (their emotions, stories, experiences, etc.), talking to them, telling their story, allowing them to have a voice, fill it up and inspire it.
A journalist must be curious, good at connecting people, outgoing and intelligent. This features also describe Pablo’s personality. Furthermore, the most important tasks are: not to forget about any stories, look for interesting elements and try to bring new things to reality.
Among all the interesting things we learned about him, one of them was the work which he felt the proudest of: four years ago he wrote about testimonials from anonymous people on an airline that had a failure and collided.
He has always wanted to travel, so before living in Jerusalem, he was in places like Brazil, China, New Zealand, among others. He’s never thought of a job that wasn't as closely related to travel as this one. He exposed that you can be a journalist anywhere in the world and always look for opportunities to it.
HOW IS THE CULTURE IN ISRAEL?
Mr. Duer established that there are two big differences between the two countries. The first one is attitude: Argentine society is much more polite and patient than Israeli. The other big difference are points of view. Religion is very important for a specific part of the society: they call each other “brother” as they all feel like family. This group of people want Israel to be more religious and, nowadays, this concept plays a strong role in society and those who follow it refuse to follow rules that attempt to their religious life.
Work was the main reason why Pablo decided to move to Israel, but there were some others aspects that influenced his decision. For example, the fact that he wanted something different where he could learn about other cultures and experience new things. Related to the country, there are several places to visit that he recommends, and one of them is Jerusalem. This area has symbolic places, like the nativity church, but it also has lots of nature, like waterfalls. He described us Jerusalem as much smaller than Buenos Aires, old, with lots of history and very religious.
He lives in Israel but he doesn’t forget where he came from. That’s why he drinks mate, eats empanadas, watches matches from Boca Juniors and reads a lot of Argentinian literature.
WHAT ABOUT THE FOOD?
Pablo moved to another country but his preference for Argentine food did not change. The dish he misses the most is "Milanesas a la Napolitana" and every time he has the opportunity to come to Argentina, he eats it without hesitation.
Since he mentioned that he missed Argentine food, we were curious if he knew about any restaurant in Israel that sells Argentinian gastronomy and, actually, he did. The food wasn't exactly the same, but it was quite similar. Although he likes and misses some of our meals, he has a preference for Israeli and Chinese food, as both have a wide variety of seasonings and stronger flavors.
