[3] During the Yom Kippur War, Kol Yisrael accompanied the 51st Battalion in a desert operation.
[11] [12] In 1983, he was reprimanded by the director general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, Yosef Lapid, following an incident he had with reporter Miron Tzur.
During Operation Cast Lead, Daniel refused to abandon the Channel 2 broadcast station in Sderot when a "red color" alarm was heard live, [14] contrary to the instructions of his superiors, explaining that "I am here to broadcast and not run away from the screen in times of distress."
During the same operation, Daniel allegedly violated the instructions of the military censorship, when he reported on the expected timing of the opening of the ground campaign.
In his commentary, Daniel took a hawkish line, such as in Operation Eitan, which supported the IDF's ground entry into the Gaza Strip.
In the years 2018–2021, he broadcast a current affairs program on 103FM radio - "The Cabinet" - together with Alon Ben-David and Yoav Limor, in which they talked about political, security, sports and more.
In March 2019, he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Likud campaign mocked the sight of Abramovich being wounded in the Yom Kippur War and burned in the face, Daniel said that "mocking Amnon Abramovich for his scars - one of the lowest things I have seen."
[18] His critics on the left, including journalist Gideon Levy, protested that he claimed to have actually served as an IDF spokesman rather than an investigative reporter, and reported events in a selectively convenient manner for IDF authorities and sometimes even adopted the army's official line.
In July 2012, it became known that State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss had complained to the Second Authority about Daniel's conduct in covering the Harpaz affair.