Metula

As schools start in Israel, government pushes for teachers to move up north with NIS 60,000 grant

The grant is intended for teaching staff working in communities up to 9km from the northern border, and the may live up to 30km from the border.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
Ofra Erlich teaching at Metula.
Israel Police respond to the scene of an explosion caused by a previously undetonated ordnance near Metula on August 18, 2026.

Six Thai workers injured after undetonated mine explodes in northern Israel

Israel Police responded to the scene of the incident and have begun an investigation into the circumstances of the explosion.

|ByELI ASHKENAZI, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during the Jerusalem Summit, a conference on antisemitism and Christian support for Israel, at the Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2026.

As US-Iran peace prospects crumble, return to heavy fighting up to Trump, CENTCOM, Huckabee says

“I wouldn’t be overconfident if I were the Iranians that they will be able to make this work well for them,” Huckabee said.

|BySAM HALPERN

Metula reawakens and calls on the Israelis to return

After a difficult period, Metula is celebrating 130 years and trying to rehabilitate itself – with a renewed Rishonim Street, reopened businesses, and clear Galilean air waiting for travelers.

JULY 6, 2026ByELI ASHKENAZI
Metula Council Chairman David Azoulai stands next to the Israeli flag in defiance of the US president setting policy on the northern border, according to his claim