TWO VICTIMS TRYING TO PROMOTE RECONCILIATION
The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, had been domestically employed employees, the Israeli international ministry mentioned. They had been attempting to advertise reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, separate advocacy teams every belonged to mentioned.
Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the US, instructed reporters the younger man killed had “bought a hoop this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend subsequent week in Jerusalem”.
The German-Israeli Society mentioned Lischinsky had grown up in Bavaria and spoke fluent German.
“We keep in mind him as an open-minded, clever and deeply dedicated individual whose curiosity in German-Israeli relations and methods to realize peaceable coexistence within the Center East brightened the atmosphere round him,” mentioned the society’s president, Volker Beck.
Tech2Peace, an advocacy group coaching younger Palestinians and Israelis and selling dialogue between them, mentioned Milgrim was an lively volunteer who “introduced individuals along with empathy and goal”.
“Her dedication to constructing a greater future was evident in all the things she did,” it mentioned. “Her voice and spirit can be profoundly missed.”
After the incident, a witness, Katie Kalisher, 29, mentioned she was amongst individuals within the museum who had been chatting to a person who entered trying very scared after gunshots had been heard exterior, when he all of the sudden pulled out a keffiyeh scarf.
“He says, ‘I did it. I did it for Gaza, free, free Palestine. And he is chanting this. After which all of the sudden the police are available and so they arrest him,” mentioned Kalisher, a jewelry designer.
“However he did not even have the Palestinian keffiyeh. He had the Jordanian keffiyeh. So I believe he is a extremely confused individual,” she mentioned.
