Handwritten notes are left on the website of the current taking pictures exterior the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on Might 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two Israeli Embassy employees members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, have been gunned down Wednesday night after an occasion on the museum by a person shouting slogans in assist for Palestine.
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Handwritten notes are left on the website of the current taking pictures exterior the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on Might 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Two Israeli Embassy employees members, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, have been gunned down Wednesday night after an occasion on the museum by a person shouting slogans in assist for Palestine.
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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim labored for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
This weekend, they have been slated to go to Jerusalem — Milgrim was to fulfill Lischinsky’s household for the primary time. In response to Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter, Lischinsky had purchased a hoop and was planning to suggest.
As an alternative, they have been gunned down exterior an occasion on the Capitol Jewish Museum on Wednesday evening.
The killing comes apart an increase in antisemitic incidents. Daniel Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, reacts to the information.
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