Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Shot Dead Outside Jewish Museum in DC
The victims had planned to get engaged in Jerusalem next week. The shooter yelled “Free, free Palestine” as he was taken into custody.
By: Charles Bybelezer – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org
Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
The male victim was identified as Yaron Lischinsky. His final post on social media was a repost of a message condemning the United Nations’ false claim that 14,000 infants in Gaza were facing imminent starvation, labeling it a modern-day blood libel.
According to Israeli Ambassador to Berlin Ron Prosor, who taught him as a master student, Lischinsky was a Germany-born Christian Zionist who had served in the Israel Defense Forces and “chose to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and the Zionist cause.”
The female victim was Sarah Milgrim. She spent five weeks in Israel researching the role of friendships in peacebuilding for her final master’s project, according to a LinkedIn post she shared two years ago.
Milgrim’s work built on a stint with Tech2Peace the previous summer, where she developed a passion for capturing the stories of Jewish and Arab participants.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter revealed that the victims were a couple who were about to be engaged. Lischinsky had recently purchased an engagement ring and planned to propose next week in Jerusalem.
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