Meir Vaknin, 56, and Michael Nahum, 61, were named by authorities Monday as two of nine people killed in a missile strike on a Bat Yam residential high-rise early Sunday.
According to Hebrew media, Vaknin was a father of three, and Nahum was a father of four. Both were Bat Yam residents.
Belina Ashkenazi, 94, and Efrat Saranga, 44 were earlier named as victims in the attack.
The missile impact also killed an 8-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy and an 18-year-old boy.
Five of the victims, including the three children, were Ukrainian nationals. Bat Yam has a large community of Jews from the former Soviet Union.
Nine people are believed to have been killed, and nearly 200 injured, when a ballistic missile directly impacted the Bat Yam apartment building.
Search and rescue efforts at the site continued Monday, as one person remains missing following the early morning strike.
Separately, Avraham Cohen, 75, was identified as the person killed in an Iranian attack a day later, after he was pulled out of a building in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, that was damaged by a missile that directly impacted a local school, leaving the latter in ruins.
Four people were also killed in Petah Tikva, and three in Haifa, during that barrage, which came just after 4 a.m. on Monday. Their identities had not been released as of Monday afternoon.
The three dead in Haifa were killed by an impact at the Bazan oil refinery complex, authorities permitted for publication. The attack caused “localized damage” at the oil facility, according to the authorities.
Rescuers had attempted for hours to reach the three missing people, who were buried under rubble during the attack on the northern city. A fire also broke out at the location, complicating rescue operations.
The Health Ministry said 287 people were hospitalized nationwide as a result of the barrage — one person in serious condition, 14 moderately injured, and the rest only lightly injured or suffering acute shock.
Two of the people killed in Petah Tikva were in the safe room of their fourth story apartment when a missile — carrying a warhead weighing hundreds of kilograms — directly hit the safe room’s wall. Those in the shelters on the floors above and below were unharmed.
The safe rooms, which Israelis are urged to enter upon hearing a siren, are designed to sustain the shockwave of ballistic missiles as well as shrapnel — but not a direct strike from a large explosive warhead.
The military has routinely emphasized that, as good as Israel’s multi-layered air defenses are, they are not hermetic. It has urged Israelis to heed Home Front Command instructions to take shelter in safe rooms and shelters when incoming missile warnings are received.
Underground spaces such as parking lots are not protected spaces unless explicitly designated as such.
Last Friday, Israel launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure, citing the immediate and existential threat they posed. It has continued hitting Iran every day since.
Iran responded with missile and drone barrages at Israel. Though most of the attacks have been thwarted by air defenses, some missiles have slipped through, slamming into Israeli cities.
Iran’s leaders, who are sworn to destroy Israel, have publicly denied seeking nuclear weapons, but have stocked up on 60%-enriched uranium — far above what is necessary for civilian uses, and a short step away from weapons-grade.