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 . Having investigated radical religion in Pakistan , Afghanistan , and South Lebanon , Setton decided to take his investigation closer to home and investigate how right-wing religious fundamentalism was impacting Orthodox Jews in Israel . The phenomenon of the radical right had already made an enormous impact on Israeli society following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994 by Baruch Goldstein , and the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir the following year . Two groups associated with these events , Kach and Kahane Chai , were declared terrorist organizations by the Israeli and U.S. governments , respectively . 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 . 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
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
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