Located in the Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council.

Many members of the community were immigrants from the Iraqi town of Koy Sanjaq and children in the moshav were taught Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

[3] The village was the site of Hezbollah's cross-border raid in the 2006 Lebanon War, in which three Israeli soldiers were killed and two captured.

[citation needed] In 2006, a resident of Shtula, Sara Khatan, was honored with lighting a torch on Israel Independence Day for her contribution to Upper Galilee tourism.

[5] Amidst the conflict between Hamas and Israel, Hezbollah militants targeting northern Israeli border communities, necessitated the evacuation of several, including Shtula.