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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Rehovot

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Rehovot, June 15, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Filipina caregiver dies of wounds from Iranian missile attack
By ToI Staff
Philippine embassy names victim as Leah Mosquera, 49, injured in June 15 strike in Rehovot, marking 29th victim of 12-day war
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit and caused damage in Rehovot, June 15, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 13, 2025, 6:02 pm
Filipina caregiver dies of wounds from Iranian missile attack
Philippine embassy names victim as Leah Mosquera, 49, injured in June 15 strike in Rehovot, marking 29th victim of 12-day war
By ToI Staff
Israeli teams work to assess the damage and clear the rubble in Bnei Brak after a local school suffered a direct missile strike by Iran, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 23, 2025, 12:44 pm
Education Ministry shuts 80 ultra-Orthodox schools flouting closure orders, backtracks
Schools stayed open despite IDF Home Front Command shuttering all education facilities amid missile danger from Iran; ministry orders them closed, halts their funding, then reverses move
By Rossella Tercatin, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Prof. Eldad Tzahor from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot visits the site where his lab used to stand after it suffered a direct hit from an Iranian missile on June 15, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 19, 2025, 10:16 pm
From heart tissue to DNA samples, Weizmann scientists mourn work vaporized in Iran attack
Some 45 labs in the prestigious sciences center were damaged and might take years — and tens of millions — to rebuild. Multiple researchers lost their life’s work
By Rossella Tercatin
Rehovot resident Deborah Fait after her home was damaged by an Iranian missile fired on June 15, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 15, 2025, 10:03 pm
‘I tried to go to the living room, but it wasn’t there anymore’: A near miss in Rehovot
Deborah Fait, 84, was woken by sirens and booms; her house was heavily damaged in missile strike, but she and her neighbors were unharmed; ‘I’m lucky to be alive,’ she says
By Rossella Tercatin
Ballistic missile damage seen in Rehovot, on June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 15, 2025, 5:30 pm
Iranian missile attacks damage Haifa oil refinery and Rehovot university buildings
Bazan says pipelines and transmission lines at sensitive industrial site struck, but work continuing; no injuries reported as Weizmann Institute hit, causing fire
By ToI Staff
Responders work in a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in the city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, early on June 15, 2025. (Jack Guez / AFP)
June 15, 2025, 9:05 am
9 dead, including 3 children, in Iranian missile strike on Bat Yam apartment building
Nearly 200 hurt, one still missing, with mayor saying 61 buildings damaged in attack; at least 42 injured in Rehovot, including mother and toddler
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Pvt. Arthur Gasner (Courtesy)
May 15, 2025, 4:30 pm
IDF determines soldier killed in 1949 was buried in Rehovot grave with comrades
5-year investigation identifies remains of Pvt. Arthur Gasner, 76 years after he was killed in action; he was listed as fallen but missing
By Emanuel Fabian
Screenshots of the footage of the alleged altercation between an employee and IDF soldiers at the Ramat Gan McDonald's, December 31, 2024. (Screenshots from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 1, 2025, 7:49 pm
Ben Gvir orders arrest of Arab Israeli McDonald’s employee who accosted soldiers
Video shows employee throwing things at two soldiers, witness says he got irate after the soldiers started filming him; Ben Gvir says police arrested man on his orders
By ToI Staff
Nissim Maayan Levi (Courtesy)
December 15, 2024, 10:25 pm
Nissim Levi, 30: Deliveryman attended music festivals to ‘feel alive’
Murdered while trying to escape the Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival on October 7
By ToI Staff
Kosher McDonald's restaurant in Ashkelon, Israel. (Creative Commons via JTA)
May 19, 2024, 5:53 pm
Rehovot residents protest after police repeatedly shut McDonald’s on Shabbat
Locals say newly opened restaurant is being targeted for selective enforcement, but city maintains it’s maintaining status quo given fast food joint’s location
By ToI Staff
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman (top right) confronted by activist Yarden Mann in Rehovot, January 24, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 24, 2024, 6:13 pm
Woman detained for allegedly assaulting Minister Silman at Rehovot shopping center
Police say 52-year-old activist knocked phone out of environmental protection minister’s hands and slapped her; suspect denies allegations
By Michael Horovitz
Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF Master Sgt (res.) Nitai Meisels at the military cemetery in Rehovot, on December 25, 2023. He was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip a day earlier. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
December 26, 2023, 7:54 am
‘You will forever remain 30’: Soldier Nitai Meisels, killed in Gaza, laid to rest
At ceremony attended by hundreds, family say reservist soldier didn’t tell them he was involved in the fighting to keep them from worrying about his safety
By ToI Staff
A firefighter at the scene of a blaze at Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, December 3, 2023. (Fire and Rescue services)
December 4, 2023, 2:21 pm
Patient dies in fire at Kaplan hospital in Rehovot
Staff extricates man before firefighters arrive to put out blaze, but he later dies of injuries; initial probe suggests electrical fault caused incident
By Michael Horovitz
Ori Lev, 31, who was attacked outside a bar in the central city of Rehovot, August 18, 2023. (TikTok video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 19, 2023, 6:35 pm
Man punched, hospitalized in suspected homophobic attack in Rehovot
Ori Lev, 31, says he was knocked to the floor after replying in the affirmative to a man who asked if he was gay; local LGBTQ community helps file police complaint
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
July 30, 2023, 2:36 pm
Foreign worker crushed to death at construction site
Man, 40, reportedly falls along with collapsed scaffolding, with firefighters struggling to extract him
By ToI Staff
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