Sights and Entertainment Metulla’s main spectacle is HaGader haTova (The Good Fence) just north of town, an opening in the border barrier between Lebanon and Israel where Lebanese Christians and Druze are allowed to pass through to obtain free medical services, visit relatives, and work in Israel. Israel began passing aid and supplies across the border to Lebanese Christians in 1971, and in 1976 the Good Fence was officially opened, remaining open even during the war in Lebanon.

From the observation point to the right of the snack bars you can see several Maronite Christian villages; on the farthest hill to the right (northwest) stands the Crusader fortress of Beaufort, which was fortified by the PLO and used as a base for shelling Israeli border villages. On the hill farthest to the southwest, look for the Israeli kibbutz Misgav Am, located where the border heads farther north, behind a Lebanese hill. Avoid the ridiculous “Better a close neighbor than a distant enemy'’ T-shirts, and get a more intriguing souvenir, sold quietly at the snack bar on the far left: Lebanese money.