Who were the Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead days before getting engaged?

TEL AVIV – The 2 radical shot and killed extracurricular a Jewish depository successful Washington were young staffers astatine the Israeli Embassy who were soon to beryllium engaged. The fishy shouted “Free Palestine” arsenic helium was being arrested.

Israel identified the victims arsenic Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, without giving their ages. They were leaving a young diplomats lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum that was meant to “foster unity and observe Jewish heritage” erstwhile they were killed connected Wednesday.

Lischinsky had bought an engagement ringing and was conscionable days distant from proposing to Milgrim connected a planned travel to Jerusalem, according to Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter.

Here is simply a look astatine the victims:

Yaron Lischinsky

Lischinsky worked arsenic a probe adjunct astatine the Israeli Embassy, wherever helium was liable for a fig of tasks, including keeping its governmental section up to day connected “important events and trends happening successful the Middle East & North Africa,” according to his LinkedIn profile.

Lischinsky moved to Israel from Germany astatine property 16, according to his profile, and helium said that helium had “the privilege of calling some Jerusalem and Nuremberg my home.”

Ron Prosor, a seasoned Israeli diplomat, said that Lischinsky was a pupil of his astatine an Israeli university. He said that Lischinsky was Christian, “a existent person of Israel” who had served successful the subject “and chose to dedicate his beingness to the authorities of Israel.”

In Germany, the German-Israeli Society — a radical that promotes bilateral relations and solidarity with Israel — said that Lischinsky grew up partially successful Bavaria and spoke fluent German.

It said that helium was a founding subordinate of the younker forum of the Israeli-German Society, the group’s counterpart successful Israel, and took a occupation astatine the Israeli Embassy successful Washington successful 2022. It said that helium was besides a passionate photographer.

On his LinkedIn profile, Lischinsky said that helium advocated for interfaith dialog and intercultural understanding. He said that helium was an “ardent believer” successful deepening Israel’s ties with the Arab satellite done the U.S.-brokered agreements known arsenic the Abraham Accords.

On Instagram, his bio included a yellowish ribbon symbolizing the conflict to escaped the hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected confederate Israel that ignited the warfare successful the Gaza Strip.

He earned a master’s grade successful government, diplomacy and strategy from Reichman University adjacent Tel Aviv.

Sarah Milgrim

Milgrim worked astatine the Israeli Embassy’s section of nationalist diplomacy and organized visits and missions to Israel. She was an American citizen, according to Israel's erstwhile ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog.

In her LinkedIn bio, she said that her passionateness “lies astatine the intersection of peacebuilding, spiritual engagement, and biology work.”

She said that arsenic a Jewish educator, she facilitated “insightful discussions connected geopolitics successful Israel and Palestine.” She said that she worked successful Tel Aviv for Tech2Peace, an enactment that provides “high-tech and entrepreneurial grooming alongside struggle dialog to young Palestinians and Israelis.”

She had a certificate successful spiritual engagement and peacebuilding from the United States Institute of Peace, an enactment funded by the U.S. Congress that promotes struggle resolution.

She graduated from the University of Kansas successful 2021 with a bachelor's grade successful biology studies with a insignificant successful anthropology and besides had a master's successful planetary affairs from American University.

Her Instagram bio besides had a yellowish ribbon, arsenic good arsenic a transition from Deuteronomy, “Justice, justness you shall pursue,” written successful Hebrew.

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Geir Moulson successful Berlin, and Melanie Lidman successful Tel Aviv, contributed to this report.

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