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It was another sweltering Friday in Rehovot, a city in central Israel, and Chaya Hitin and Odelia Tsaidi-Zommer each left their homes for a swim.

Dr. Bressler is a professor and runs a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv.

Born in 1944 in Rehovot, in what would become the state of Israel four years later, Mr. Milchan inherited his father’s failing fertilizer business and turned it into a multimillion-dollar agrochemical company.

An Israeli woman and a Palestinian labourer from Gaza were killed by rockets that hit an apartment in Rehovot and a building site in Shokeda respectively.

But one on Thursday penetrated missile defenses and sliced through a house in the central city of Rehovot, killing an 80-year-old woman and wounding several others.