Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who worked for the Israeli Embassy, were identified as the victims of a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Before they were killed by a gunman outside a Washington Jewish museum, Yaron Lischinsky had planned to make a formal proposal of marriage to Sarah Milgrim in Jerusalem next week. As their deaths late Wednesday intensify the international spotlight on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza,

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.

Man accused of killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder of federal officials