"In Berlin Jerusalem, the city [of Jerusalem] organises the narrative: that is where the film's two heroines want to go, where they meet each other and where the narrative ends. In this film, Jerusalem appears in all its chimerical aspects. It is a mythical city, Else Lasker-Schüler's poetic city, but also the city of the first Jewish migrants, an Arab city and a contemporary megalopolis. Its appearance in the end and its mirage, which appears from the beginning, bind the entire narrative into parallel layers (...). Reality erupts into the film as something sudden and lethal, like the gunshots, the explosions, the chaos (...) A conventional world of ruins is transformed into a convulsive world of violence."
Mikhail Iampolski, "The Road to Jerusalem", in "The Films of Amos Gitai", edited by Paul Willemen, BFI, London, 1993