The episode, by Israeli director Dan Setton, investigated the rise of the religious right in Israel and the role it could play as a "spoiler" in peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
[3] Setton explains that the inspiration for his project came from his previous film, In the Name of God (HBO), an investigation of fundamentalist Islam and suicide bombers, for which he received an Emmy Award.
[7] While Setton found that the activist core of these groups was small, some 30 percent of Israelis identified with their ideology of establishing an exclusively Jewish state.
[1] To better understand the phenomenon, he decided to investigate a lesser-known incident that had failed - a plot to bomb a Palestinian girls' school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur.
During the film, Setton interviews the two perpetrators, Shlomo Dvir and Yarden Morag, in prison, and visits the settlement of Bat Ayin, where they lived.
"[9] He believes that revenge is the motive for people like Yitzhak Paz,[10] formerly of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, whose 10-month-old daughter Shalhevet was killed by a sniper, while he and his wife were walking with her in the street.
Shmuel Ben Yishai, a follower of Meir Kahane now living in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, is no less antagonistic toward the State of Israel in its current configuration: "The Israeli secular entity has to be destroyed," he says.
Mike Guzovsky says: "I think the day will come when the Secret Service and the government will look for Jews who are willing to go into the Arab villages and kick them out, kill them …"[12] During the film, Setton also speaks with the Israeli authorities under whose tenure the events occurred.