Two members of the Israeli Embassy staff were gunned down outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, officials said.

Slain staffer Yaron Lischinsky had purchased an engagement ring and was planning to propose to his colleague Sarah Milgrim.

A couple working at Israel’s embassy in Washington D.C. who were killed by a gunman were about to become engaged.Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were attacked late on Wednesday night while leaving an event at a Jewish museum,

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.

Ron Prosor said that Yaron Lischinsky represented Judeo-Christian values and set an example for young people around the world.

In the years before he was accused of killing two Israeli Embassy employees, the suspect in the fatal shootings was an active participant in Chicago’s left-wing protest scene, speaking out against police violence and a proposed Amazon headquarters.

They were in the prime of their lives,” the Embassy of Israel to the USA wrote on X. Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were identified as the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in Washington ...

Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were departing an event at the museum Wednesday evening when they were gunned down and killed.