Sarah Milgerim was a person who knew “exactly what she wanted from life,” according to the people who knew it well. It was ideal that invested itself in Jewish life, and in the future of Israel. In her high school, on the outskirts of Kansas City, she was a member of the Jewish Student Union; As adults, she was interviewed by a local news station after someone sprayed the swednx in the school building. “I am concerned about going to my synagogue,” she said. “Now there is no need to worry about safety in my school.”
Later, at Kansas University, she was at the Hillel branch board on the campus and went on the journey of right in Israel. At the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the American University and the United Nations University for Peace, where it focused on sustainable development, it participated in the tech2pece, a non -governmental organization that brings together young Israelis and Palestinians to train in the Israeli technology industry. She later joined the American Jewish Jewish Youth Program. I thought about working for the US Agency for International Development shortly after the October 7 attacks on Israel, although she went to work at the Israeli embassy in the capital, “I felt strongly improved and left the world better than I found,” Dana Walker, director of the American Jewish Committee program, told me.
Milgerim’s friend, Yaron Lesinski, worked alongside her at the Israeli embassy. He was also perfect, although his life followed a different path. Liensky grew up in Israel and Germany. He was an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli defense forces. His father was Jewish, his Christian mother. “Although my parents were different beliefs, the internal conflicts that I have often faced from their cultural backgrounds or different religions, but from tension between the one hand, I grew up in a religious house, and on the other hand, he lives in a secular society,” he wrote about a request to the conservative Liberal Conservative Program in Jerusal. It has starved to understand political and moral thought in the West. Lesinski was Christian, not a Jew-a “believer man”, Ronin Shufal, a political philosopher who was one of the intellectual architects in the sharp transformation of Israel towards right-wing Zionism, who taught Lichinsky in the two signs. Shufal said that Lesinsky “was ready to link his future to the future of the Jewish state.” “This was the person who was already ready to change his life.”
On Wednesday, Milgram, who was twenty -six years old, and Lesinski, who was thirty years old, attended a reception for diplomatic youth, hosted by AJC at the Jewish Museum of the Capital, in members of the capital team, about increasing aid to humanitarian crises in Gaza and through the Middle East. In about 9 eveningThe couple left the event, leaving the museum alongside two other people. According to the Federal Investigation Office, video control shows that as they are ready to cross the street, a man named Elias Rodriguez, wearing a blue rain coat and back bag, walked behind them. Then it was claimed that Rodriguez turned, pulled a gun from his belt, and shot their backs. They fell to the ground. He walked to them, extending his arm, still shoots. Milgerim tried to crawl away. Follow her, and fired again. I sat. Rodriguez re -uploaded, firing again. Milgrim was transferred to the chief medical examiner in the capital and announced his death at 9:35 pm evening Lesinski announced his death at the scene. Rodriguez did not enter a call in his first appearance in the court, the next day.
Rodriguez had bought a ticket for the AJC event three hours before the shooting. “I did this for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.” He expressed his admiration for Arone Bouchnil, a US Air Force soldier who set fire outside the Israeli embassy in the capital, in 2024. While the police were accompanying Rodriguez from the museum, the video shouted, “Palestine is free, free!”
There is no evidence that Rodriguez was targeting Milgerim or Lynnesky specifically. It is not clear if he knows that they are employees of the embassy. But their work for the State of Israel has become the dominant truth of their death. “I really felt annoyed when I saw the news and all the main news channels said:” Two employees of the Israeli embassy opened fire and kill, “instead of,” two young men were killed in a anti -Semitic attack, they come out of a Jewish event in a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, Sharon Bruce EcarThe community of a prominent synagogue told me in Los Angeles. “This person was looking for the Jews to kill.” There is a continuous discussion about the place where the exact line is located between the anti -Zionism and the anti -Semitism. In this case, Rodriguez spoke in the language of anti -Zionism, but he acted with the logic of anti -Semitism, which was a founding legend that all Jews gathered collectively for Israeli government policies, and this is often sufficient, for the diseases of the world. It is claimed that Rodriguez found two people, who did not know their lives, and made them die for the sins of Israel. He killed a Christian and Jew, one Israeli and one American, only confirms that their lives, dates and beliefs do not concern.
Members of a group of Americans who worked in the Israeli government told me that last and a half WhatsApp conversation had flooded the messages. “Everyone is shocked, terrified and scorned,” said Miri Bilsky, who has been working at the Israeli embassy in Washington for more than a few decades. “It is a very close feeling of home for all of us. Americans who choose to take these roles in principle and strong will and try to formulate a better future.” Aaron Kapoitz, another embassy employee, who is currently visiting Jerusalem, discovered that Milgerim was killed while he had a missile strike from Yemen. “Why should a person working in Israel be killed in an event in the capital? This is where we are?” He said. “It is crazy that in the country’s capital, someone took it upon him to kill two people who were going to an event that relied on unity and peace building and shot them, and ended these amazing spirits early.” According to what Lischinsky was preparing for Milgrim’s suggestion in a few days, after recently bought the engagement ring.
Capitz met a criminal in September, when they traveled to Morocco in a fellowship with AJC and local NGOs called the Mimouna Association. The journey gathered Jews and Muslims from America, Israel, France and Morocco. The group visited the temples and mosques and sought to build closer relationships with each other. Yasmina Asrarguis, one of the Muslim participants, is a Moroccan -French researcher who studies diplomatic efforts such as Ibrahim agreements “People working to make peace,” she said. “Sarah was one of these people.” Asraguis and Milgrim are close during the trip. Asraguis felt that they were allied in their vision of the future of their countries. “I thought the other Middle East was possible, as Jews and Muslims could live side by side and not kill each other to the Earth,” said Asraguis.
When we talked, ASRARGUIS had just had an unofficial memorial call with a group of Milgrim friends, all of whom shared stories about her sense of a better future. Although Milgrim was young, “I did a lot to make her vision become something. She did what she can on her level,” ASRARGUIS said. It is a well-known profile-the American Jewish child who threw herself in a Jewish Muslim dialogue and a project to create peace in the Middle East. “You cannot achieve justice with injustice,” said Asraguis. “You do not rebuild Gaza by bringing more injustice to this world.” ♦
