Eyal Berkowitz and Ofira Esseig (screenshot of Keshet 12) After quite a few teasers, last night (Friday) Eyal Berkowitz’s full interview with Netali Shem Tov was finally broadcast on Network 13, the channel he switched to following many years on Keshet 12 following the conflict with his ex-girlfriend Ofira Esseig . On the reasons for the decline of Ofira and Berkovic, the discourse encouraged by the show, the criticism of him and his criticisms, all in one place. Berkovic said for good measure in an interview: “Me and Ofira have been together for 18 years, of which we fought for eight years. Seriously, we have friction all the time, you know, like a married man and woman. plural, complementary. I fought with her many times before and I did not leave the program. I left the program because I was exhausted, really exhausted, now Opira, that’s another story. I won’t tell you we didn’t fight. we fought There was a crazy explosion. We had SMS among us. She wanted to go up, I didn’t want to go up, she was angry, I wasn’t angry.”
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Berkovic continued: “So I told her: ‘Go up with someone else. Everything is fine, go up, what’s the problem?’. Now, they keep telling me, ‘What, are you offended that she went up with other people?’ About that. I really wasn’t angry regarding it. She went on the air and she wasn’t in touch with me for regarding a month or a month and a half, and then suddenly she sent me some kind of message, so I wrote her a harsh message back, and she came back to me, and in the messages, there was an explosion. We fought and I decided that I I’m not going back to this program anymore. I received an offer from a network – and I passed.”
Berkovich continued: “Even today we don’t talk, but if I see her on the street, I hug her. Great Ophira. Really, I don’t have a single bad word to say regarding Ophira. Why didn’t I call her? She blocked me. Very simple.”
Where did October 7 catch him: “We were on holiday. We celebrated Opira’s birthday. I got up on October 7th very late, I saw 200,000 messages on my phone, I didn’t understand what was happening. War, war, war, war, war. It was stressful to be there My head is working straight away, we are in an Arab country, they can turn on us suddenly, they can close the gates here.”
What does he want to do from now on on television: “Because of the whole situation, because of the program that was very intense, a lot of fights. A lot of things that happened before October 7, that cannot happen today. For example, I will not go to fight with an ultra-Orthodox guy now in the studio, there is no chance. There is no chance that I’m going to fight with Bibist in the studio. There’s no way I’m going to fight with an Arab in the studio. There’s no chance. I think that following October 7 I realized that we need to unite more because otherwise we’ll be exterminated. I said regarding the Likud that they’re a criminal organization, all of the Likud don’t want to come. I fought with Ahmed Tibi and with Issawi Frij, all those from the Arab sector do not want to come. I said what I said regarding the ultra-Orthodox, who will share in the burden, that they are idlers, of all the ultra-orthodox parties, no one wants to come. I mean, who am I left with? With Knesset member Danny Danon, who appears in every Studio. And with Ofira.”
Does he repeat the statement that “the Likud is a criminal organization”: “No. No. No regrets. I said regarding the members of the Knesset, I did not say regarding the voters. I said regarding those who run the Likud, yes. They behave like a criminal organization, yes. who sits at the head of the landlord who doesn’t say a word, and sends all his messengers to talk all the nonsense and all the crap they spew out. I think the politicians brought us to this situation. These politicians – they should be fired, put 120 new ones for me. All those who were on duty should go home 120 members of Knesset and all those appointed in the army, they all need to go home. They all screwed up.”
He also claimed: “After the war there should be elections. The war will not end because this is his exercise, the war that never ends. I can bring you a recording that I recorded on the fifth or sixth day of the war, I wrote ‘This will be the biggest, longest war that has been here in the country.’ . There is a personal interest here. I think Netanyahu, he is only interested in Netanyahu. Nothing else. Maybe he will say, ‘Guys, I will take responsibility for once, really, I don’t want to do it in a fight or something, and I was 15 years and I I won’t do better in the next 15 years because this is what I know how to do, and get up and go, and solve the problem. Really, any other person would get up and go.”
The issue of the abductees: “There is a debate in the public. I hear, yes to bring, not to bring. Bring them at any cost. Think that your girl or my child is there. It’s crazy. Bring them at any cost, I’m not interested in 3,000 terrorists, 5,000 terrorists, I’m not interested . So I hear Ben Gabir and Smotrich don’t want to make a deal? Tell me, are you crazy? Bring them at any cost, I don’t care what. And I’m the most right-wing that can be. I’m the most Jewish and the most Israeli and the most Zionist and love the country the most.”
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One might think that Eyal Berkowitz is a tall boy, it’s a shame that he doesn’t see his own hump, he’s like a camel who smears others with his mouth and thinks he understands and knows everything. Therefore it is unbearable.
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