Stab vest fails in TV filming

AN ISRAELI reporter was accidentally stabbed on the job while demonstrating a protective vest.

Eitam Lachover was filming a story about a company making the protective clothing at a time when Israel is facing near-daily stabbing attacks by Palestinians.

Linda Bar, a spokeswoman for Israel’s state broadcaster, said Lachover had asked to try on the vest and demonstrate a thwarted stabbing.

But the knife penetrated the vest, lightly wounding him in the upper back.

Yaniv Montakyo, a vice-president at the company that makes the vest, told Israeli Channel 2 TV that he stabbed Lachover in an area of the vest where there was no protective material.

Moments earlier, he had tried to ease Lachover’s visible fear by telling him: “You have nothing to worry about. We are very confident in our product.

“This product can protect from knives that are stronger than this one. May I? Don’t be afraid.”

He said an earlier take had been successful and had not harmed the reporter.

Bar said that despite the mishap, the news item would still be broadcast.

Lachover said on Twitter he’d got stitches and been discharged from the hospital.

A nearly four-month wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence is raging in the region. – Daily Mail