The Israeli embassy employee Yaron Lischinsky, Sarah Milgrim killed – the striker

By Louis Keene
May 22, 2025

The man, who allegedly went to two Israeli employees and shot them on Wednesday evening, said he said the eyewitnesses that he did it for Gaza.

But the event that these employees had left in the Capital Jewish Museum emphasized an organization that gaza helped during the Israel-Hamas War. And his victims had made the peaceful structure of their work of central importance.

The Israeli embassy identified the victims on Thursday as Sarah Milgrim, an employee in the Department of Public Diplomacy, and Yaron Lischinsky, a research assistant. Milgrim was an American and Lischinsky, an Israeli born in Germany.

The Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter said that the two were a couple, and Lischinsky bought and planned a engagement ring and planned to propose next week.

The attack occurred after a Jewish networking event of the American Jewish Committee, in which spokesman for the humanitarian aid groups Israaid and the Multifaith alliance discussed their work.

Lischinsky and Milgrim, each of which seemed to have a passion for peace and coalition buildings, had special attraction.

According to a LinkedIn profile that seems to belong to Lischinsky, his task for the message was monitoring politics in the Middle East and North Africa, worked with think tanks and helps organizing delegation visits from various Israeli ministries.

In his LinkedIn biography, Lischinsky described himself as a “passionate believer” in the Abraham Agreement – a pioneering series of normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries – and said that he was believed to expand the peace circle with the Arab neighbors of Israel.

“For this purpose, I support myself for the interreligious dialogue and the intercultural understanding,” wrote Lischinsky.

Milgrim also described research on peace consolidation theory: “Emphasis on basic initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian region”, Sie-as employees of Tech2peace, an Israeli program that combines entrepreneurial training and conflict dialogue for young Palestinians and Israelis.

Milgrim's Master project for the American University School of International Service analyzed the role of friendships in the peace consolidation process according to a post 2023 LinkedIn Post.

It is unclear what the suspect, who was identified by the police as Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from Chicago, was identified by his victims or about the event or why he has targeted her.

The Multifaith Alliance, a non-profit organization based in the USA, which deals with shift crises, was on site throughout the Israel Hamas war, which are distributed in Gaza in Gaza. In March, the group said that they had delivered families more than 300 truck loads of aids with essential winter accessories, hygiene products and nutritious foods in Gaza in the past six months. In April it was said that three of his volunteers were killed in an Israeli attack.

Israaid is an Israeli NGO who has worked closely with displaced Israeli residents of the area near the border between Gaza Strip. After seven world Central Kitchen kitchen had been killed volunteers when their auxiliary convoy was attacked by the Israeli army, Israaaid said that he was “shocked and destroyed” and demanded better protection for auxiliary workers.

“Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the blossom of their lives,” wrote the Israeli embassy on Thursday in an explanation. “Tonight a terrorist shot her when you left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC. The entire message of the message is destroyed by her murder with a broken heart and on the ground. No words can express the depth of our grief and our terror about this devastating loss.”