People in Bar’am, a kibbutz about 300m from the Lebanese border, are accustomed to living close to a country that hosts the Iran-backed, anti-Israel militant group Hizbullah – close enough, as one resident said, to hear the sounds of mosques and “wave to people” on the other side. The community in the Galilee Heights, which is home to fruit orchards and the ruins of an ancient Jewish synagogue, was among the border villages that came under missile fire during Israel’s war with Lebanon in 2006. The two countries still have no ties. When Hamas gunmen raided southern Israel and killed...