Victim's body returned to Israel
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Israel, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky
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Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.
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.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin had just met with one of the slain Israeli Embassy staffers earlier in May, posting to social media Thursday he was "heartbroken" over her 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.
But the interwoven lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were brutally cut short Wednesday evening, when the two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a reception for young diplomats at the Capital Jewish Museum.