After the deadly suicide attack on the Park Hotel in Netanya on the eve of Passover, the Nachshon Battalion was called up for emergency reserve duty.
Ten days later, in a clash with armed terrorists deep inside Jenin refugee camp, 13 officers and soldiers of its “mesaya’at” company were killed.

This company received a collective commendation for its activity in the Jenin refugee camp, and three of the company’s soldiers received personal commendations, two posthumously.
The director Gil Mezuman, a member of this reserve company, filmed his fellow soldiers and officers for three weeks, from the funerals of those killed to the release of the reservists to their homes and families.

The “mesaya’at” company is a microcosm of Israeli society: religious and secular, rightists and leftists, settlers wearing kippot and yuppies sporting pony-tails, bachelors and family men. Jenin Diary follows the soldiers as they deal with the collective fears and the individual guilt feelings, live together under fire, red-eyed from sleep-deprivation and tears, trying to grasp what exactly happened during those moments in the narrow alley in the heart of the Jenin refugee camp. What are they, the IDF and the State of Israel doing there? Will they report for reserve duty the next time they are called?

Jenin Diary exposes to all the inside story of the human element in wartime.

 Jerusalem Film Festival 2002
 Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2003
 Israel Film Festival in the U.S.A 2003 (Los Angeles, New-York, Miami)
 Phoenix Israel film festival 2003
 Australia¹s Festival of Jewish Cinema 2003
 San Francisco State University Film Festival "Exploring the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through Film." 
 San Diego Jewish Film Festival, 2004