Israeli embassy staff killed: The last hours of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim

WASHINGTON – – Yoni Kalim took part in the event of the American Jewish Committee at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday evening, where he spent time with the employees of the Israeli embassy, ​​Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim before they were shot tragically.

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The last hours of the victims

What we know:

The event aimed to bridge gaps between Muslim, Christian and Jewish organizations that work together to provide gaza strips of humanitarian aid. Kalim met Lischinsky, 30, a research assistant, and Milgrim (26), who coordinated visits and missions to Israel. The meeting included employees of more than 30 messages, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and young experts.

Kalim said he and others heard 10 to 15 shots shortly after 9 p.m., but the suspect entered, but at first he noticed that he was the shooter. “I was not entirely aware that he was the suspect. I am very used to seeing Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Jewish events and Jewish rooms. It is quite common. It is quite common for us to make the leap that he was accidentally related to these shots later than many of us started at the event,” he said.

“I'm still in a shock state. The community staggered from these losses,” said Kalim to Fox 5.

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Engagement plans broken tragically

He said he interacted at the event with Lischinsky and Milgrim and was destroyed to find out to find out that they had been killed. “It's absolutely terrible. I mean, I interacted with you at dinner.” I interacted with them throughout the event and find out that they were only shot down – shot 10, 15 times – is terrible. “Although he did not know the couple very well that he and his family had mutual friends with them, as it is in common in the Jewish community.

Fox 5 has learned that the couple prepared for the engagement. Lischinsky bought a ring at the beginning of this week and proposed in Jerusalem next week. “It is a senseless act of the horror that I hope that it will never happen again,” said Kalim.

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“I could have been.”

Kalim called the incident an act of domestic terrorism and said the couple was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. “I don't know how he stumbled across the two Israeli employees of the message, but I wanted to call my Uber at about the same time, but my wife decided that she wanted to stay a little longer. I could have been.”

Kalim also expressed concerns about the security gaps during the event. “After hearing the shots, the protocol should have completed the hotel,” said Kalim. “However, we had people who were already with the event that they had their name signs. The person in custody he had now had a suit. So he looked like he could have been one of us.”

“I think protocols were injured,” said Kalim. “He was let in, and thank God he had no weapon on him because we were with him, I don't know 10, 15 minutes.”

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