Father Of Murdered Israeli Embassy Staffer Says Daughter Was Dedicated To Peace-Building

The father of 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim, an American Jew who was murdered Wednesday night, said his daughter was dedicated to peace-building.

Milgrim was murdered by 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, a keffiyeh-wearing gunman with ties to radical leftist groups, who later shouted “Free Palestine” while in police custody. The shooter said he “did this for Gaza” in the moments after the shooting, according to Sky News.

Robert Milgrim, 73, told the New York Post that his daughter was attending an event about getting more humanitarian aid to Gazans.

“Last night, she was attending an affair to figure out how to get more aid into Gaza,” Milgrim said. “The night she was killed, she was trying to help the situation – that’s the irony.”

Milgrim, who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, was a full-time employee at the embassy’s Department of Public Diplomacy. She got her Master of Arts at American University and was also a graduate of the University for Peace.

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Her “About” section on her LinkedIn says her “passion lies at the intersection of peacebuilding, religious engagement, and environmental work.”

Robert reportedly said his daughter spent multiple summers in Israel working with “peace-building groups” to mend the divide between Israelis and Arabs.

Robert added that his daughter was supposed to travel to Israel on Sunday to meet the family of her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, who was also killed.

“She was happier now than she ever was in her life,” Robert said. “She was truly in love with Yaron and vice versa.”

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At a Wednesday night press conference, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said Lischinsky and Milgrim were about to get engaged.

“The couple that was gunned down tonight in the name of free Palestine is a couple that was about 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. They were a beautiful couple who came to enjoy an evening in Washington’s cultural center.”

Lischinsky, 30, was a German-Israeli dual citizen and a devout evangelical Christian who immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces. He studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was fluent in German, Hebrew, English, and Japanese.

He moved to work as a political analyst at the Israeli embassy in 2022.

Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said Lischinsky was his master’s student at Reichman University and described him as “bright, curious and engaged.”

“He was a Christian, a true lover of Israel, served in the IDF, and chose to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and the Zionist cause,” Prosor wrote. “He embodied the Judeo-Christian values and set an example for young people worldwide. I paid my condolences to his parents this morning.”

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