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Victims Named After Iranian Missile Destroys Beit Shemesh Synagogue

The attack is reported as the deadliest on Israel since the wider war began, with 65 people hospitalized.

FILE - Rescue workers and military personnel operate at the scene where several people were killed in an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
FILE - Rescue workers and military personnel carry a body of a victim from the scene where several people were killed by an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
A relative shows photos of three siblings, Yaakov Biton and his two sisters, Avigail and Sarah, who were killed earlier this week when an Iranian missile struck their home in the city of Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
FILE - Mourners attend the funeral of Yaakov Biton, 16, and his two sisters, Avigail, 15, and Sarah, 13, who were killed in an Iranian missile attack, at the cemetery in Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Overview

  • Three Biton siblings — Yaakov, 17, Avigail, 15, and Sarah, 13 — were identified among the nine killed and were buried in a late-night funeral at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.
  • Their parents, Tamar and Yitzhak, and their surviving 4-year-old daughter, Rachel, are mourning from a Jerusalem hotel after their home was destroyed.
  • Yitzhak Biton said the missile struck the shelter beneath the synagogue, collapsing the structure and damaging nearby homes.
  • Authorities and relatives later released the names of other victims, including Bruria Cohen and her son Yosef, Gabriel Baruch Revach, Oren Katz, and Sara Elimelech and her daughter Ronit.
  • The strike unfolded during a fast-widening regional conflict following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, with large casualty reports in Iran and Lebanon.