Daniel Freudenreich was born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, to a Jewish family.

He began his career at the age of 12, on a program for youth, "Everything in Everything," as part of the Tel Aviv Children's Ulpan of Kol Yisrael.

Over the years he has presented Mabat, Boker Tov Israel, special reports and news flashes, and served at different times as the head of the foreign news desk, the head of the training desk and the sub-editor of Mabat.

For ten years, between 1973 and 1983 he was identified with the consumer program Kolbotek, which was one of its founders and first mentor, with whom he was twice awarded the violin prize.

In 1979, Pe'er hosted the twenty fourth Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem alongside Yardena Arazi.

Pe'er died on 28 September 2017 after a stroke at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center.