{"id":150611,"date":"2025-05-22T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israeli-museum-victim-was-planning-to-propose-bbc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:12:04","slug":"israeli-museum-victim-was-planning-to-propose-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israeli-museum-victim-was-planning-to-propose-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli museum victim 'was planning to propose' – BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yaron Lischinsky was preparing to propose to his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim. He had just bought an engagement ring, and planned to ask on a trip to Jerusalem next week.
But on Wednesday night in Washington, they were shot dead by a man who shouted "free Palestine" outside the Capital Jewish Museum as they left an event billed by organisers as a discussion of the Gaza crisis that aimed to "turn pain into purpose".
Their deaths have shocked colleagues at the Israeli embassy, sparked international outrage and prompted Israeli leaders to blame "rising hostility" and antisemitism after Hamas attacked the country on 7 October, 2023.
The ambassador in Washington Yechiel Leiter, paid tribute to the pair as a "beautiful couple".
They were "to be engaged", he said. "The young man purchased a ring this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem."
Sarah Milgrim's father Robert said his family loved Mr Lischinsky, and that the couple were due to go to Israel on Sunday to meet his family, he told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
Mr Lischinsky, 28, worked in the embassy's political department while Ms Milgrim, 26, had been a part of the public diplomacy department for a year and a half.
He was a German-born Israeli citizen, served three years in the Israel Defence Forces and held a master's degree in government diplomacy and strategy from Reichman University.
He described himself on LinkedIn as "proud to call both Jerusalem and Nuremberg home" and as a wanting to "expand the circle of peace with our Arab neighbour".
Friends told the BBC that Mr Lischinsky was a Christian with great belief in Israel.
Jenny Havemann, from Ra'anana, Israel, and said he was a "nice, modest calm and friendly" man, "a part of a Christian Zionist group, and he was very into bringing Germans and Israelis together".
Ronen Shoval, another friend described him as "a very devout Christian" who had moved to Israel from Germany. Many people wanted to understand his background. He was a serious Christian believer."
Sarah Milgrim "loves Israel and she loved everybody that lived in the Middle East", her father Robert said.
She spent several summers in Israel working "with Palestinian and Israeli groups to bring them together", including with Tech2Peace, an advocacy group training young Palestinians and Israelis and promoting dialogue between them.
"She had a lot of close Palestinian friends, as well as many Israeli friends," he said.
Tech2Peace said Ms Milgrim was an active volunteer who "brought people together with empathy and purpose".
"Her dedication to building a better future was evident in everything she did," it said. "Her voice and spirit will be profoundly missed."
According to her LinkedIn profile, Ms Milgrim had master's degrees in international studies from the American University and another in natural resources and sustainable development from the UN University for Peace, as well as a bachelor's in environmental studies from the University of Kansas.
The Israeli embassy said that its "entire staff is heartbroken and devastated" by the couple's deaths. "No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this terrible loss."
The shooting has led to heightened security at Israeli diplomatic missions around the world.
The deaths come as the war in Gaza enters is nineteenth month, following the Hamas-led assault of 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Since then, Israel's military response has killed more than 53,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to the territory's health ministry.
Aid agencies and foreign governments, including Britain, have warned of an escalating humanitarian catastrophe, with famine looming.
Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, is in custody and being questioned over Mr Lischinsky and Ms Milgrim's deaths.
A split Supreme Court ruling upholds a lower court decision that prohibited Oklahoma from establishing the nation's first Christian charter school.
The aid, including flour and baby food, was picked up three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade.
Several homes were destroyed and cars caught fire after the private aircraft crashed, forcing the evacuation of 100 people.
The BBC's Wyre Davies visits the Kerem Shalom crossing, through which aid for Gaza is currently passing after Israel eased an 11-week blockade.
The bill's passage is a victory for the White House, which warned that failure would be a 'betrayal'.
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