The victims of Wednesday’s shooting outside an American Jewish Committee event at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington DC were named by authorities as Yarón Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26.
Israel Ganz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council, was at the scene of the terror attack just minutes before two Israeli Embassy employees were murdered late Wednesday night.
In a statement following the attack, Ganz emphasized, “This truly proves that this is not a battle over territory or borders,” he emphasized. “It is a war for our very existence as a people.”
Our horror at this brutal murder – a vicious act of anti-Semitism – is shared by many people around the world right now. We are beyond the point of defining news like this as disturbing or devastating. There are no appropriate words anymore to describe the increased terrorism against Israel and the Jewish people with such brazen and deadly expressions of hatred.