Buildings that were hit by a ballistic missile fired from Iran, in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv<\/p>\n
An Iranian missile strike devastated several research labs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba, which plays a significant role in training Israeli air force (IAF) pilots, an Israeli newspaper reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n The IAF flight course is a three-year program that has been in place for approximately 20 years, with over 1,000 military pilots graduating and earning their degrees.<\/p>\n On June 19, an Iranian ballistic missile strike destroyed six laboratories and severely damaged nine others at Ben-Gurion University, the Times of Israel reported.<\/p>\n The retaliatory strike \u201cwiped out years of work on diverse research projects in medicine and biology,\u201d the university said.<\/p>\n According to the daily, classrooms, instructional labs, and the dissection room of the Faculty of Health Sciences were heavily impacted, along with damage to 30 additional buildings on the main Marcus Family Campus.<\/p>\n University officials are still assessing losses, which may run into hundreds of millions of shekels, it added.<\/p>\n According to Professor Daniel Chamovitz, the current president of BGU, initial estimates of damage caused by Iranian missiles hitting Israeli research and development centers indicate that at least four universities and technology institutes of the regime were completely destroyed or damaged in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba.<\/p>\n