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A few years ago, Israeli director Samuel Maoz had a scare to end all scares. Maoz's teenage daughter was prone to waking up late and relying on parental largesse to get to school. So he decided to teach her a gentle lesson one morning and send her on a city bus.
Shortly after she left the house, Maoz heard that a bus had exploded in a terrorist attack. Many of its passengers were dead.
"It was the same bus she was going to take," Maoz recalled, "the No.5. I tried to call her, but I couldn't get through because the cellular network had collapsed."
The moments of waiting,
