Israeli Embassy, to Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky
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Atlanta Jewish community mourns after Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy staffers, are killed in D.C. shooting.
Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.
A couple working at Israel’s embassy in Washington D.C. who were killed by a gunman were about to become engaged.Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were attacked late on Wednesday night while leaving an event at a Jewish museum,
Both victims were embassy employees, who were about to get engaged; couple worked and advocated for Israeli-Arab coexistence
The message we are giving is, what would Sarah want us to do? What would she whisper in our ears now? She would say, ‘More light, more love. Don’t fight darkness with more darkness.’”
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, whom Israeli officials said were soon to become engaged, both worked at the Israeli embassy.
Milgrim, then a 17-year-old senior, voiced her concerns about the sickening messages and symbols — which included a swastika — that were painted on a storage shed on the campus of Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kan., in February 2017.
WASHINGTON—Hudson Institute released the following statement on the loss of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim: “Hudson mourns the loss of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, murdered last night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington,
Yoni Kalim was at the American Jewish Committee event on Wednesday night at the Capital Jewish Museum and spent time with Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim before they were tragically gunned down.
On Wednesday evening, two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in the nation’s capital were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum.The American Jewish Committee confirmed that the two homicide victims were Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky.
Sarah grew up in our community. She celebrated with us, learned with us and inspired us with her integrity and purpose."