Heaps of twisted metal and rubble still litter the ground outside demolished buildings with blown-out windows, collapsed ceilings and blackened walls that housed some of Israel’s top scientific laboratories. They seem singularly out of place in the immaculate sprawling campus with its well-kept green lawns, colorful flower beds and garden plots. A month after two Iranian missiles struck Israel’s “crown jewel of science,” repair work is fast underway at the Weizmann Institute in the central city of Rehovot, once known as “Israel’s citrus capital,” which became renowned in the decades that followed for its prestigious center for science.
At 3 a.m. on June 15, Iranian missiles battered the research center known for its work in life sciences and physics. A life sciences lab and a chemistry building, due to open in November, were hit. The blast’s force impacted other buildings as well, including the Earth and Planetary Science Building, which was demolished.
Decades of research in scores of laboratories, including studies in the fields of cancer, heart disease and how particles in the atmosphere affect...
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