This paper proposes a new paradigm for analysis of Israeli documentary films made during the second Intifada - post-traumatic motherhood. Focusing on the burning issues of the relationships between motherhood and militarism, colonialism, and multiculturalism, the analysis of various maternal representations will enable a discussion of the ways in which Israeli documentary cinema describes the repercussions of the Occupation and the Intifada on both Israeli and Palestinian societies. Motherhood, presented in these films in various ways against the backdrop of the historical events that shaped the identity of the State of Israel, links both directly and implicitly between the ongoing violent reality and what I regard as the maternal crisis that characterizes the post-traumatic subject position of both Israeli and Palestinian motherhood. Cinema research, as well as the prevalent political and social discourses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflect phallocentric paternalism that focuses on the ways the violence of both the Occupation and terror influence the public sphere. In contrast, the films discussed reveal the effects of violence on the home front. Thus, they allow a discussion that takes place outside the hegemonic discourse, structuring an ethical attitude toward the other, both on personal and national levels.