On his father’s side, Yaniv Elhadif’s family has been in northern Israel for 21 generations, ever since they fled the Spanish Inquisition. Yaniv grew up in Metula, surrounded by hostile Lebanese villages, where life entailed everything from terrorist invaders to Hezbollah digging tunnels under people’s houses. But Metula is Yaniv’s home, and he never left, even during wars with Lebanon. He even stayed there to raise his children—and then, for the first time in his life, Oct.