Israel’s much-celebrated Weizmann Institute marked its 90th anniversary last year, but is suddenly facing one of its greatest challenges: the Weizmann Institute of Science’s campus in Rehovot was struck by two Iranian ballistic missiles in June.

Among the hardest-hit buildings and labs were the institute’s hub for world-leading cancer research, which also housed core facilities many groups rely on for their life sciences work — labs using AI to develop personalized medicine for diseases without a cure, and a building home to many breakthroughs in climate science and astronomy.

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No building was unscathed. Across campus, the labs of 52 research groups conducting groundbreaking science were affected, all of which need to be relocated and restocked.

According to Weizmann

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