Foreign Students Learn What It Means to be Israeli
Published by www.timesofisrael.com on April 10, 2026.
On a recent morning at the Shulich Faculty of Chemistry at Haifa’s Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, three post-doctoral students from India were immersed in their research experiments. The lab was crowded with glass beakers, bottles, test tubes, and syringes.
Suddenly, a siren blared, indicating a possible incoming Iranian ballistic missile.
The students calmly filed out of the Ashraf Brik lab, as though this drill were part of normal procedure, and headed for the protected room down the hall. One didn’t bother to take off his white lab coat and gloves.
After about 10 minutes, the students returned to the lab and resumed their work. This time, there was no damage.
However, two days later, on March 26, another Iranian missile barrage struck the campus. Nobody was hurt, but the campus sustained damage to one of its libraries, several other buildings, infrastructure, and equipment.
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