In Israel's Northern Hills, All Eyes Look To Lebanon

A man walks in an empty alley in Israel's northern city of Safed, amid ongoing cross-border tensions with Lebanon (Credit: AFP)

On a clear day, the view south from Safed, high in the mountains of northern Israel, stretches uninterrupted across orange groves and orchards to the Sea of Galilee.

But all eyes in the historic city have been trained more recently on the jagged hills just a few kilometres (miles) away to the north -- and the border with Lebanon.