The shooting of the Israeli message emphasizes the growing security challenges for Jewish sites

The shooting of two Israeli employees in Washington, DC, after a Jewish event on Wednesday, underlines the struggle that the American cities are faced with to protect Jewish citizens and landmarks that have been repeatedly targeted by radicals and terrorists over the years.

According to the anti-Defamation League, anti-Jewish hate crimes are included in FBI data to record heights. The massacres include the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, which started Hamas on Israel.

Large police departments such as the NYPD have been focusing on the efforts to prevent targets to prevent and improve security on and by Jewish landmarks for years.

“Unfortunately, special attention had to be paid over the decades if these places and events have a Jewish or Israeli topic,” said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector. “This was only increased after September 11, after the tree of life in Pittsburgh, after October 7th – after so many others.”

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In New York, the police have visibly improved their presence outside of synagogues, the Israeli consulate and their own Jewish Museum of the Big Apple.

If there is even the perceived chance of a threat, the department routinely will improve security in relation to Jewish landmarks in the city. Some have a visible police presence all year round.

“The good news is that the NYPD knows how to do it, and although nothing is perfect, you have developed great specialist knowledge in this area-thanks to best practice that was won by partner agencies around the world,” said Mauro.

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Elias Rodriguez, the 31-year-old suspect who was accused (Instagram/@shinewithisrael)

Many other departments have taken over the NYPD protocols.

Whenever attacks take place, the police quickly announce increased patrols near worship.

Despite years of police efforts, the attacks are continued, including a shootout at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, Wednesday evening.

A spectator prays when he bears an Israel flag with a cross in the middle near the Jewish Museum near the US Capitol on May 21, 2025 in Washington. Two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot in the evening after an event in the Capital Jewish Museum. (Tom Brenner for the Washington Post about Getty Images)

The 31-year-old suspect, Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, is accused of being fatally shot two workers from the Israeli embassy from behind after leaving an event sponsored by the American Jewish Committee.

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Mauro announced Fox News Digital that visible security measures could decide outside the event location and not within the building.

“The fact that the story is that he drove around the door and that the event went right there, and then he decided to do it outside?” he said. “He traveled all the way from Chicago to do this?”

The NYPD Conterrorism Unit officials are aware of the Israeli consulate in New York on May 22, 2025. This is part of an increase in security in Jewish organizations across the country after an Israeli couple in Washington, DC, was killed, DC (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)

He noticed that the event location and the organizers had some security measures. The invitations were encrypted and limited. For security reasons, at least one non-servant MPD officer was inside.

The official who wore a police vest may have frightened the alleged shooter to open the fire in the building, he said.

“I think he saw the security and said: 'I'm better off not to go in and be shot yourself,'” speculated Mauro. “He didn't decide to shoot it out. He decided to pull a manion. He wanted to live.”

Luigi Mangione, a 27-year-old graduate of the Ivy League, became a suspected murderer, Brian Thompson, CEO of Unitedhealthcare, from behind after having followed him in Manhattan. He supposedly had a manifesto in which his contempt for the health insurance industry was outlined in his backpack when the police arrested him in a Pennsylvania McDonald's days later.

Security officers surround the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025 after a shootout in which two people were dead. Two Israeli embassy employees who were identified by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were shot at the end of May 21, outside of a Jewish museum in Washington by a shooter who “called free Palestine from free Palestine”, said the authorities with US officials and Israeli dip. Expressed killings. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

A possible manifesto from Rodriguez was examined by the FBI to check his authenticity, as the deputy director Dan Bongino announced on X Thursday.

The Jewish community has also taken its own measures to increase security.

David Katz, a former Dea agent and CEO of the Global Security Group, uses his specialist knowledge about the reaction of active shooters to train Jewish volunteers to protect their own synagogues on the side.

The NYPD Conterrorism Unit officials are aware of the Israeli consulate in New York on May 22, 2025. This is part of an increase in security in Jewish organizations across the country after an Israeli couple in Washington, DC, was killed, DC (Kevin C. Downs for Fox News Digital)

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“Nevertheless, I can't believe that someone goes up and down outside of a great Jewish institution in a excited way and nobody questions the guy?” He said Fox News Digital. “Nobody calls the police to interview him at all?”

An external presence is an essential aspect of security that cat teaches, he said.

“In my synagogue one of the volunteers just went out and said hello,” he said. “Enter the person and see how they react. They are looking for indications of body language as they scan for hidden weapons. We have backup volunteers ready for action. Everyone is armed and everyone is trained.”