Watch: What happened when Magal, Segal and Riklin returned to their broadcasts from the day of the massacre?
Three Channel 14 presenters – Yinon Magal, Ariel Segal, and Shimon Riklin – watch archive footage from their broadcasts on the evening of October 7, 2023, for the first time, as part of a special film. The film reveals their emotional reactions, debates over the scale of the disaster, and a surprising admission by Riklin that he was wrong in his assessment of the expected change in the country.
Three prominent presenters of Channel 14 – Yinon Magal, Ariel Segal, and Shimon Riklin – sit down to watch archive footage from their broadcasts on the evening of October 7, 2023, for the first time, as part of a special film titled "Return to October" created by Shira Kripes. The film, about ten minutes long, documents their real-time reactions and their subsequent reflections. Magal recalls opening the broadcast with the prayer "Acheinu Kol Beit Yisrael" – a moment he had forgotten until his sister reminded him. Riklin recounts the morning he woke up to sirens in Tel Aviv without understanding the magnitude of the event, and confesses that his firm statement that evening – "the Israel you knew will no longer be" – was wrong: "there's a chance I was mistaken." Segal, whose son served as a fighter, describes the difficult moments and the call for unity he made. The film also includes a debate between Magal and Segal over whether October 7 is the greatest disaster in the country's history, and Segal's claim that members of "Brothers in Arms" used his son for a thank-you photo.