While Tel Aviv has some of Israel's highest rents, most apartments lack a safe room or even a building shelter. Yet a consensus prevails that nowhere else in the country is preferable, even after repeated Iranian missile bombardments
Tziona Simhi, 93, lives on the top floor of a Tel Aviv building with no elevator. "I can't reach the building shelter, so I go sit in the stairwell during alarms." Credit: Eyal Toueg
While Tel Aviv has some of Israel's highest rents, most apartments lack a safe room or even a building shelter. Yet a consensus prevails that nowhere else in the country is preferable, even after repeated Iranian missile bombardments
08:18 AM • April 08 2026 IDT
In early March, the destruction caused the previous week by an Iranian missile strike in south Tel Aviv was evident in and around the impact site. Broken shutters and windows, sent flying by the force of the blast on Yehuda Halevi Street, still lay on the sidewalks of many nearby streets. Municipal workers collected the debris. Residents who had been evacuated from damaged buildings returned to gather belongings for hotels. Others walked with their children near the neighborhood shelter.
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