Berkovic also said that on October 7, the day of the massacre committed by Hamas, he was in Dubai with Ofira Assig. “We were on holiday. We celebrated Opira’s birthday. I got up very late on October 7th, I saw 200,000 messages on my phone, I didn’t understand what was going on. War, war, war, war, war. It was stressful to be there. My head is working straight away, we are in the country Arabic, they can turn on us suddenly, they can close the gates here.” After a few days he found a flight back to Israel.
“I was thinking,” said Berkovic in an interview with News 13. “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’s no way. There’s no way that I’m going to fight with Bibist in the studio. There’s no way that I’m going to fight with an Arab in the studio. There’s no way. I think that after October 7th I realized that we need to unite more because otherwise we’ll be exterminated.
“I said about the Likud that they are a criminal organization, all of the Likud do not want to come. I fought with Ahmed Tibi and Issawi Frij, all those from the Arab sector do not want to come. I said what I said about the ultra-Orthodox, who will share in the burden, that they are idlers, of all the ultra-Orthodox parties, no one I want to come. I mean, who did I stay with? With Knesset member Danny Danon, who appears in every studio. And with Ofira.”
However, he refused to express regret for statements such as “the Likud is a criminal organization”: “No regrets. I said about the members of the Knesset, I did not say about the voters. I said about those who run the Likud, yes. They act like a criminal organization, yes. Who sits at the head The owner of the house who doesn’t speak a word, and sends all his messengers to talk all the nonsense and all the crap they spew out of their mouths.”