MOSHAV LIMAN — On a recent sunny afternoon, three of Maya Yaacobi’s daughters were playing in the backyard of her husband’s family farm, less than two miles from the border with Lebanon.

One was examining ladybugs, another was riding her bicycle with training wheels, and the third was toddling in the grass. The family’s five horses ambled in their pen surrounded by green fields. Up in the blue sky, a white cloud drifted by.

“No, that’s actually smoke from the Iron Dome shooting out a rocket,” Yaacobi told this reporter.

This deep-rooted agricultural community is no stranger to war. For 14 months after Hamas’s devastating invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones into northern Israel.

Most of the 850 residents of the village were among the 60,000 people evacuated from a wide swath of the country’s north as a result.

After a ceasefire with Hezbollah in late November 2024, residents began to return home. They removed pests, cobwebs and mildew from their houses, began repairing damaged buildings, and restarted their lives.

Then came the start of the ongoing joint US-Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime. Hezbollah joined the fighting last week, claiming it was doing so to retaliate for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The terror group blasted some 200 rockets and drones at northern Israel for hours on Wednesday night into Thursday, repeatedly sending hundreds of thousands of Israelis to shelters.

Residents say they refuse to be evacuated again and have mostly stayed put — but the threat is real and constant.

On Sunday, Moshav Liman lost a soldier who grew up there, Or Demry, sending the residents reeling in anguish.

Yaacobi said that when the family was forced to leave Moshav Liman in 2023, they had to let their avocado trees die because nobody could take care of them. They still have plans to convert the plot of land into a sustainable........

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