Meanwhile, Israel's agricultural sector is in jeopardy because farmers are struggling to keep up with the workload.

That's because many foreign workers return to their home countries after the Hamas attack and many Israelis were called to fight in the IDF.

Well, that's where some pretty special volunteers from New Jersey have stepped in to help.

Raven Santana has the story on how they went to Israel to lend a helping hand.

There was one...

This is a red alert.

To get to your get to your bomb shelter.

But it passed.

So that was nerve wracking.

I had never experienced that before.

Chana Baron had originally flown to Israel to support her parents after her mother was in the hospital.

The Teaneck resident said after a few days of caring for her mother, who was making a speedy recovery, she decided to turn her attention to volunteering.

Seeing Jerusalem so quiet, it was very hard to see because it's really life late.

Not hearing children on Sabbaths when you know kids are running around.

Was was.

Shocking.

Baron says she spent two weeks volunteering on small farms in Israel that were in need of help.

I volunteered, picking pomegranates.

I planted garlic at another farm and I weeded improved strawberry plants.

And I also work for this organization called Yad Sarah, and they lend out medical equipment to those in need.

And there is now a dire need for wheelchairs, for soldiers, for those who are injured in the horrific, heinous slaughter on October seven.

Baron is not alone.

She's just one example of how New Jerseyans have come out in full force to help aid families who have lost their homes and belongings in the Hamas terror attack.

One of the biggest challenges is navigating where volunteers can stay or who to help once they land in Israel.

No one wants to go to the borders.

No one wants to go five kilometers from Egypt.

But that's where the farms are.

So we have groups.

They're not huge, but we have groups.

I would say 10 to 20 that we send out every week to the farms in the south.

We have it's the one place where I have a location.

I have lodging because the rest of the country, the hotels are full with evacuees.

Tourists, really, it's not a time to bring in hundreds of thousands of tourists because our every piece of property we have, even Airbnb.

People with their own homes and they live abroad have opened up their homes for the evacuees.

So you have to find places if you're going to bring people in.

That's where Beverly Luchfeld comes in.

Luchfeld has coordinated with hundreds of volunteers from around the world to send them to farms where there is a labor shortage.

And she did most of it all through a WhatsApp group.

It may be 30 families and each person has a plot of land of their own.

And so when we go down there, we're working for many individual farmers.

That's really where it's critical because he maybe has a son, maybe he has a son in law helping him.

But right now, they're all at the front fighting.

And it's not just physical support that's needed.

It's also emotional support.

Rabbi David Seth Kirshner, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Closter, has taken a group of 18 members from his synagogue to Israel, where they visited families whose loved ones were taken hostage.

We spend the day meeting with families whose loved ones have been held hostage since October 7th.

They've had no proofs of life and no discussions.

And see them they have no no information about their welfare.

That's been affordable.

We've met with Israeli leadership, some who are part of the military, some are part of the government, and talking about the challenges of how do you fight a war when you know you have hostages and how do you negotiate for hostages when you're fighting a war?

We've met with families who have lost loved ones and we've sat in their shivahs in Israel.

We've gone to the hospital to see wounded soldiers.

We've taken tours outside of the area of Gaza in homes that were demolished and burnt out or people were murdered.

We have seen some of that devastation firsthand.

He is now giving 100% of the proceeds from his new book to streams of shattered Consciousness to help trauma victims in Israel who witnessed or survived the recent events.

Since October 7th.

Israel was in an unprecedented and unmitigated nightmare.

It still was in it.

So being by its side and letting Israel know that people around the world, Jews and non-Jews, people who care about civilization and about goodness, are by their side and there to help them matters.

And that's why we're doing it, and that's what we're going to keep doing it.

For NJ Spotlight News.

I'm Raven Santana.