Iran, Israel and Tel Aviv
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Iranian missiles struck Israel’s Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn on Monday, destroying homes and fuelling concerns among world leaders at this week’s G7 meeting that
Frank Ashley, the former interim Dean at the Bush School, was traveling to the Middle East as fighting was breaking out.
At least seven people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Iranian ballistic missile hit Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, overnight on Sunday, domestic media reported. Other reports put the death toll at six people. Israel's police said residential buildings took a "direct hit that caused extensive damage."
Eliezer Reinhold lives in a suburb of Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva. Reinhold is the father-in-law of Florida State University’s Chabad of Tallahassee Rabbi, Schneur Oirechman. Reinhold visits Tallahassee several times a year, but is currently in Israel. He said the last few days have been long, and every night brings the chance for missile attacks.
Israel’s air campaign on Iran’s capital appeared to broaden on the fourth day of an intensifying conflict as U.S.
The State Department raised its travel advisory for Israel to Level 4, the highest level, amid airstrikes from Iran.
But the 55-year-old Afghan businessman couldn’t find a way, with Iranian airspace completely shut down. He fled to Tehran after the strike Sunday, but no taxi would take him to the border as the conflict between Iran and Israel intensified.