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The Good Fence: Lebanon’s Forgotten Refugees in Israel
In May 2000, as Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon after 15 years, some 6,500 Lebanese — former South Lebanon Army soldiers and their families — fled across the border. This episode traces the full arc of that forgotten chapter: the Good Fence humanitarian crossing opened in 1976, the alliance with Saad Haddad and the SLA, the security zone’s daily intimacy between Israeli soldiers and Lebanese villagers, the chaotic withdrawal, and the refugees’ uncertain life in Israel ever since. We explore what this story reveals about loyalty, exile, and the strange bonds formed across long border…
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