The idea came into being as the new Millennium began, a period marked by escalation in Israel's "security strip" on the Lebanese border, and by missile attacks that scored direct hits on Israeli soldiers. Public debate around withdrawal increased, and thus the word "gizra"- the eastern, western or central battlefront - resonated incessantly in news bulletins, that were particularly painful for a mother whose son was serving on the eastern front.

The artist realised that for Israeli women gizra (gizra-a Hebrew word meaning battlefront, and also cutting out) is less associated with dress-patterns and more with a gizera (gizera-a wordplay coined by Tammy Nachshon, combining in one word the Hebrew words for battlefront, misfortune, and cutting out). This was the source of the idea underlying the series.

Security-zone maps are drawn on Burda magazine dress-patterns and then attached to disposable paper tablecloths conceptualising the vulnerability and temporariness of soldiers who are like sitting ducks in a shooting-gallery, but are made of gold.