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During a press conference on Thursday morning, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar identified the two embassy staff members who were killed as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. He said the pair were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) when they were gunned down "in a horrific terrorist attack.
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Ron Halber, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, called the killings “a political assassination” and “the nightmare that we’ve all been afraid of.” He said he had always told friends that he was lucky to live in the Washington area because violence against the Jewish community was uncommon there.
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