Victim's body returned to Israel
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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who worked for the Israeli Embassy, were identified as the victims of a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are also expected to participate in the ceremony honoring the embassy employees, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.
Before they were killed by a gunman outside a Washington Jewish museum, Yaron Lischinsky had planned to make a formal proposal of marriage to Sarah Milgrim in Jerusalem next week. As their deaths late Wednesday intensify the international spotlight on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza,
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin met with one of the slain Israeli Embassy staffers earlier in May, posting to social media that he is “heartbroken" over her tragic shooting by a “Jew-hating radical.
The victim's father revealed how he found out his daughter and her boyfriend had been killed outside of the Capital Jewish Museum.