The Iranian regime and its Hizballah proxy army in Lebanon have been taking a leaf out of the Houthis playbook - how to cause maximum destruction, or at least chaos, sleep deprivation and disruption to as many civilians as possible using the minimum number of missiles and drones from their dwindling stocks.

Instead of being able to send over barrages of dozens or even hundreds of missiles in one go like they did last June, this time they seem to have far fewer missiles so they tend to send over small numbers, even just one or two, but as often as they can fire, creating constant air raid sirens and keeping Israelis on edge as to whether they can dare pop out for a moment to get groceries or drive to a doctor's appointment or go to work or take a shower or bathe the baby.

Many of the missiles are equipped with cluster warheads which detonate in midair scattering small bombs in all directions over a wide area, further increasing the areas that can be threatened by even one or two missiles.

So it was a challenging day's work for our little group of farm volunteers, several times having to stop work and rush over to the nearest miguniot (prefab concrete shelters) and then wait to get the all clear notice that it was safe to come out again, return to work for a while, then another alert, and so on.

We were glad the drive to and from the farm was quiet, the previous time we'd had to pull off at the nearest village to find shelter when the alert went off while we were on the road.

Life is crazy, tense and uncertain at the moment, but I'm glad we're able to do something to help the country get through this, and I'm also glad that in the midst of all this we are still able to find ways to laugh, to smile, to banter with friends and acquaintances over a day's work or while sheltering together in a migunit.