Shtula () is a

moshav A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...

in northern

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. Located in the

Upper Galilee The Upper Galilee (, ''HaGalil Ha'Elyon''; , ''Al Jaleel Al A'alaa'') is a geographical region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Part of the larger Galilee region, it is characterized by its higher elevations and mountainous terra ...

near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council The Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Ma'aleh Yosef'') is a Regional council (Israel), regional council in the Upper Galilee, part of the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel, situated between the towns of Ma'alot ...

. In it had a population of .

History

Moshav Shtula was established in 1967 as part of a program to strengthen the Jewish presence in the Galilee. Many members of the community were

immigrants Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents. Commuters, tourists, and other short- ...

from the Iraqi town of Koy Sanjaq and children in the moshav were taught Jewish Neo-Aramaic. The moshav is located on the land of the

Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...

villages of

Suruh Suruh (), was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located northeast of Acre. It became depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. History Suruh contained two ''khirbats'' ("sites of ruins") with a variety of ancient artifacts, including cisterns, and rock ...

and Tarbikha, which were depopulated in the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

. The village was the site of

Hezbollah Hezbollah ( ; , , ) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. I ...

's cross-border raid in the

2006 Lebanon War The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day armed conflict in Lebanon, fought between Hezbollah and Israel. The war started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, thoug ...

, in which three Israeli soldiers were killed and two captured. In 2006, a resident of Shtula, Sara Khatan, was honored with lighting a torch on Israel Independence Day for her contribution to Upper Galilee tourism. In 2014, a resident of Shtula alerted the Hebrew University Cave Research Unit to a deep cave near the moshav. The researchers declared it a record for Israel at 187-meters deep. Amidst the Israeli war on Gaza,

militants targeting northern Israeli border communities, necessitated the evacuation of several, including Shtula. On October 14, a Hezbollah-launched anti-tank missile struck Shtula, resulting in the death of one person and the injury of three others.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Moshavim Populated places established in 1967 Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1967 establishments in Israel