A month after the invasion of Lebanon, rockets are still raining down on northern Israel

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, and his heir Hashem Safieddine was also assassinated.

However, rocket fire has continued, with rockets fired at Acre every day for the past week.

“We expected it to have improved,” Mr Sagi added. “I thought like in a video game, the boss was dead, we won, now there are no real faces for Hezbollah, but the war is not over, the missiles have not stopped.”

He marked Simchat Torah with a quiet pizza with friend Hadar Barzilay, 36, and the two thought the situation was now “worse than in 2006.”

“It’s daily, it can be like a wake-up call at 7am,” Ms Barzilay said. “Every time there’s a holiday or something important, you can expect the sirens to go off a few times. There are no schools, people barely go out. Normally, on a holiday, the city would be full.”

The city has a population of only 50,000, mostly Jewish, but also a significant population of Arab citizens, who make up about 25% of the inhabitants, as well as Christian and Druze communities.

It is also home to the Al Jazaar Mosque, Israel’s largest outside Jerusalem, but this does not deter Hezbollah from firing rockets indiscriminately.

“It’s not like being in Gaza or Lebanon, but it’s still very dangerous,” said Abed Omary, 46, a Muslim Arab who owns a beachside bar and restaurant.

“Missiles can hit before they have time to take cover. I thought it might have been less until now, it hasn’t been like that for many years.”