While today Hurwitz is unable to speak or type, he uses eye gaze technology to communicate."I've been blessed with a voice that can't sing. With a body that doesn't work," Hurwitz said in a video uploaded to the Chabad.org website last month. "So I dance to a new rhythm. I'm Yitzi Hurwitz. And I know that I matter."
King, a veteran broadcaster and journalist, was born Lawrence Zeiger in Brooklyn to Orthodox Jewish parents who immigrated from Europe. In 2015 King visited Israel for the first time in 20 years, and in 2017 he accepted a lifetime achievement award at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York.