Eitam Lachover was filming a segment about a company designing the vests when he made a decision to be part of the demonstration.
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An Israeli reporter has been accidentally stabbed on the job while demonstrating a protective vest.
Other times, as one Israeli journalist found out yesterday, it can get you stabbed.
“You are going to stab me with this?” asked Lachover. But the knife penetrated the vest, lightly wounding him in the upper back. May I? Don’t be afraid’.
The executive shouted that he “missed” before helping the injured reporter out of the garment as footage quickly cut back to the television studio.
Since mid-September, 19 Israelis and an American student have been killed in stabbing attacks.
The incident saw Yaniv Montakyo, vice president of the vest manufacturer, stab the reporter in an area afforded no protection by the vest, resulting in Lachover being rushed to hospital to receive stitches. Incredibly, he barely reacts when the knife gets through, prompting Montakyo to stab him once more, just for the hell of it. Lachover had to have his wound stitched up, and he’s been discharged from hospital.
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An earlier take of the demonstration was successful and did not harm the reporter and was to be broadcast on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Israel’s state broadcaster said.
