Diameter of the Bomb Synopsis

"Fascinating... Unnerving... Intriguing..."

- Anton Bitel, Movie Gazette

On 18th June 2002 a bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem killing twenty people including the bomber. Three years later the people whose lives were affected by the bomb talk openly about the tragedy.

Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This is the story of the bombing of bus 32 in Jerusalem in June 2002. The film connects the stories of a group of ordinary Israelis - Jews and Arabs. Each of them holds a clue to someone who died that day.

Part thriller and part mystery, Diameter of the Bomb (title taken from Yehuda Amichai's poem) follows Israeli police, secret service, and military as they unsuccessfully try to prevent and then mercilessly track down the terrorist cell behind a 2002 suicide bombing. Diameter features forensic footage released for the first time by the Israeli army, Hamas military video and the bomber’s home movies, as well as stunning footage shot across Israel and the Palestinian territories.

With unprecedented access, the filmmakers took their cameras inside Israeli prisons, commando units, Palestinian refugee camps and hospital trauma wards, capturing countless everyday situations on both sides of the border to follow the figurative diameter of the bomb and its trajectory of human suffering.