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>> 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 injuries. >> frankenjack. partially ...

Record this video about their plan to kill as many as possible. >> the real terrorists are these israelis. they're really sickos. it's a great honor to kill one of these people. it's a great honor. >> jack's burned face heals but he still suffers from some of his other jar is. >> franken jack. i'm partially paralyzed down the middle. i had both 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 injured. the second s...

Politics. >> i want you all to take care of the people in the house, the waitresses, the bartenders. this is a song about freedom. >> mike's place is a bar where people come to escape the tension of a country too often torn apart by terrorism. the bar has an international feel. nearly everyone speaks english and talking about politics and religion is discouraged. >> a good bartender knows how to get out of it eloquently. a good line is are we still talking about sex. >> he's chosen mike's place as the subject of his documentary to show how israelis are coping with the violence. >> over the cou...

Bomb goes off. >> how can they do this? [ sirens ] [ screaming ] >> april 30 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 documently called blues by the beach, about this unique bar in tel aviv. >> we started doing the documentary about mike's place and the waitresses, the bartenders to try to get that perspective. pretty much stay out of the

>> 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 own erer, the bartender, avi who works security and dominick 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 cakes to tell aviv buying my cakes. >> it is jack's last night in israel. he's havi...