At 12:45am on April 29, 2003, a suicide bomber approached Mike's Place in Tel Aviv and blew himself up at the entrance to the bar - killing Dominique Hass, 29, Ran Baron, 23, and Yanai Weiss, 46, and wounding over 50. One of the wounded was security guard Avi Tabib, who blocked the bomber, preventing him from entering the bar and causing further fatalities.

Despite the events of that day, the bar reopened on Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli Independence Day.
A documentary about the Tel Aviv Mike's Place, the suicide attack at the bar, and the people affected by it, was made by American-Israeli filmmaker Joshua Faudem in 2004.