Residents of a central Tel Aviv apartment building damaged by an Iranian missile just days before they had been due to move in will finally receive the keys to their homes next week, Channel 12 has reported.
The missile hit the newly rebuilt, six-storey property at 12 Bilu Street, in the heart of Tel Aviv’s White City, on March 5, causing millions of pounds’ worth of damage to windows, doors, aluminium systems and parts of several flats.
The strike came just one week before the building’s 16 new apartments had been due to be handed over to their owners, bringing a six-year redevelopment project to an abrupt halt at the point of completion.
The developer, Ram-Moghrabi-Arditi, spent millions of shekels repairing the missile damage and continued paying rent for apartment owners while the building remained uninhabitable.
Elad Shmerling, joint CEO of Ram-Moghrabi-Arditi, said the company began assessing the damage immediately.
“We very quickly understood the magnitude of the event, and even during the war days we began to map the damage, restore the extensive destruction and find a residential housing solution for the tenants,” he said.
Government figures show the scale of displacement caused by Iranian missile strikes.
During the June 2025 conflict, between 13,000 and 19,000 residents were left without suitable homes, according to figures presented to the Knesset, with around 11,000 temporarily housed in hotels.
In the 2026 conflict, more than 5,300 people had been forced from their homes by late March, with about 3,500 staying in hotels.
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