Residents of Kiryat Bialik, a community near Haifa, were feeling vulnerable as the back-and-forth attacks escalated recently between Hezbollah and the Israeli military.

Most of the rockets, cruise missiles and drones launched overnight were intercepted by Israel’s missile defense. But at least one struck a residential neighborhood in the town of Kiryat Bialik early Sunday morning, setting cars on fire, badly damaging a half-dozen houses, shattering windows. Roughly 45,000 people live in Kiryat Bialik.