[6] In 1816 the notable traveller James Silk Buckingham visited "a large village, called Metully, altogether inhabited by Druses".

[7] In 1875, Victor Guérin described Methelleh or Metelleh as a village with a spring, occupied by Druzes from the Hauran who cultivated a garden to the east.

[11] Eventually an agreement was reached between the villagers and the Jewish Colonization Association in 1904 for an additional payment of 60,000 francs (3,000 Turkish pounds).

[16] The British Zionist Norman Bentwich wrote in 1919: Metullah, the most northern outpost, is acquiring a new function as a summer resort for the rest of the country.

Its mountain air and its splendid site, high up above a ravine, down which a stream dashes headlong to Jordan, makes it a chosen place in the dry days, and already its few homesteads are crowded in July and August.

[18] In modern Israel, Metula is known as a wealthy town popular as a tourist destination, especially for Israeli schoolchildren on summer vacation.

On the afternoon of Sunday, March 10, 1985, a convoy of IDF soldiers in "Safari" model trucks were driving from Metula towards the Lebanese town of Marjayoun.

[19] In the midst of the Israel–Hamas war, Hezbollah attacked northern Israeli border communities with rockets and missiles, prompting the evacuation of several, including Metula.

Also according to the CBS, the population over the years was: Metula lies in the northernmost point of Israel, next to the Lebanese border and at 520 m above sea level.

Maps of the Geological Survey of Israel show that the area around Metula is primarily composed of sedimentary rock units from the Jurassic to Eocene periods.

According to Israel’s Meteorological Service, Metula is characterized by a warm-summer Mediterranean climate: Summers are typically very warm and dry, and winters are cool and wet.