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[ sirens ] >> april 30th, 2003, just after midnight. seconds after an explosion. >> i was laying in a puddle of beer and blood and broken glass. this is the closest i've ever come to death. >> when the blast goes off, filmmaker jack baxter is finishing up a shoot on his documentary called "blues by the beach" about this unique bar in tel aviv. >> we started doing a documentary about mike's place. and the waitresses, the bartenders, to try to get that perspective. pretty much stay out of the politics. >> i want y'all to take care of the people here in the house, the waitresses, the bartenders.

Asif and omar record this video about their plan to kill as many as possible. >> the real terrorists are the israelis. they are real sickos. it's a great honor to kill all of these people. it's a great honor. >> jack's burned face heals but he still suffers from some of his other injuries. >> frank and jack. partially paralyzed right down the middle. i also both of my eardrums blown out. i had two operations on that. they grafted a piece from my neck into my ear. >> two musicians playing that night and dominique the french waitress sitting right next to jack are killed. another 55 people are i...

See myself maybe having my own little coffee shop things or selling case to half of tel aviv buying my cakes. >> it is jack's last night in israel. he's having a beer at a table outside saying his good-byes. >> dominique was sitting next to me. that's when one of the suicide bombers came up and tried to get into the place. >> avi, the security guard, has a bad feeling when 21-year-old asif hanik walks up. >> the guy was a little bit too quick in his pace. suicide bombings were going on all the time at that particular time. so we both looked at each other and froze. >> hanik is strapped with pl...

Is hailed as a national hero. >> who knows how many people would have been killed in that small space, so he saved literally a hundred lives. >> why mike's place? >> well, i think mike's place represents the best that this part of the world has to offer. >> just weeks earlier the suicide bombers at mike's place asif and omar record this video about their plan to kill as many as possible. >> the real terrorists are the israelis. they are real sickos. it's a great honor to kill all of these people. it's a great honor. >> jack's burned face heals but he still suffers from some of his other injuri...

>> jack has chosen mike's place as the subject of his documentary to show how israelis are coping with the violence. >> why not? >> over the course of just two weeks, jack has become close friends with the owner, the bartender, avi who works security and dominique, a 24-year-old waitress from france who has dreams of opening her own pastry shop. >> she really affected me and i guess the film shows what she's like. >> if things are going well i see myself maybe having my own little coffee shop things or selling case to half of tel aviv buying my cakes. >> it is jack's last night in israel. he's...