Metula
Two local families seek to attract young religious couples to bolster the struggling town in northern Israel.
Israel plans to build an advanced border barrier to protect against Hezbollah attacks.
Sixty percent of homes in Metula have been destroyed or badly damaged, part of $553 million in damages to some 9,000 structures across the evacuated border region.
Two farmers wounded, one seriously, near Metula • Lebanese civilians flee Baalbek after IDF issues evacuation order for the city • Radwan Force deputy commander killed in Southern Lebanon.
The confirmation came shortly after the IDF declared three northern border communities a closed military zone.
Israel conducted retaliatory strikes amid reports of civilian flight from Lebanese villages near the border.
Northern mayors say IDF only carried out powerful preemptive strike because Tel Aviv was threatened.
One of the victims was seriously injured, while the other remains in good condition.
The Israeli president visited the evacuated town near the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah also fired projectiles at Kibbutz Yiftah, Moshav Ya’ara and Kibbutz Hanita.
Two rockets caused material damage in the Eastern Galilee town of Metula.
There’s barely a single Israeli who is not connected to one of the fallen.