Rewritten and Extended on May 25
One of the Israeli embassy employees killed in Washington, Yaron Lischinsky, had both, an Israeli Diplomatic Passport and German citizenship, said media reports referring to German diplomatic sources.
Yaron Lischinsky was no ordinary diplomat. Born in Nuremberg, Bavaria / Germany, he moved to Israel at 16, embracing Jerusalem as his home while maintaining ties to his birthplace.
He was also a founding member of the DIG Youth Forum and promoted exchange between young Israelis and Germans said Volker Beck, President of the German-Israeli Society (DIG). Lischinsky spoke fluent German.
According to information from the Evangelical Press Service (epd), Lischinsky attended the Heinrich Schliemann High School in Fürth for a time.
In an X post, Shoval Ronen said that he taught Lischinsky at the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem, a Conservative Jewish Highschool of State Leadership, saying he was "a Christian, a great lover of Israel, who immigrated to Israel, served in the army, and decided to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and Zionism."
After working for Israel's Ministry of the Interior, Lischinsky came to Washington DC in 2022 and worked as a researcher on Middle Eastern & North African affairs at the Israeli Embassy. His work for the embassy included maintaining contact with foreign diplomatic delegations & NGOs, as well as organising delegation visits to Washington for different Israeli government units.
Ron Prosor, Israel's current ambassador to Germany, said he knew him from Israel's (Institute for Diplomatic Formation).
Sarah Milgrim, Lischinsky's girlfriend and second victim of the shooting, were just leaving the Reception for Jewish Diplomats of the Jewish committee (AJC) at the Jewish Museum together with two other participants, when Elias Rodriguez, a leftist activist & supporter of Palestine from Chicago, approached the group and emptied the magazine of his weapon (21 balls) on his victims. After that, he moved into the Jewish Museum where he asked for calling the police and alleged he was the perpetrator. Rodriguez leaves a 'manifest'.
[Source: Different Western Media including 'Jüdische Allgemeine']
(AJC) in the Jewish Museum of Washington as mentioned in the below quoted Arabic text.
متابعات: الخليج
تكشّفت تفاصيل جديدة حول مقتل اثنين من موظفي السفارة الإسرائيلية بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، في إطلاق نار قرب المتحف اليهودي وسط العاصمة واشنطن.
وأفاد شهود عيان بأن المشتبه فيه بإطلاق النار، وهو إلياس رودريغيز (30 عاماً) من شيكاغو، انتظر وصول الشرطة لمدة عشر دقائق بعد الحادث ولم يفر من موقعه.
وقالت شاهدة عيان لقناة سي إن إن، إنها بعد إطلاق النار اقترب من المشتبه فيه، وسألته عما إذا كان بخير قبل أن تعلم أنه مرتكب الحادث.
ودخل المشتبه فيه إلى المتحف اليهودي بعد إطلاق النار، حيث انتظر وصول الشرطة، وفقاً لشهود عيان متعددين.
وقالت شاهدة عيان: «ذهبتُ إليه وسألته إن كان بخير، فتمتم مراراً وتكراراً قائلاً: «اتصل بالشرطة»، ثم قال إنه بخير. ثم سألته إن كان قد أُصيب برصاصة، فأجاب بالنفي».
Follow-up: "The Gulf"
New details have emerged about the deaths of two Israeli embassy employees in the United States, who were shot near the Jewish Museum in the center of Washington, D.C.
Eyewitnesses reported that the perpetrator in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez (30 years old) from Chicago, waited for the police to arrive for ten minutes after the incident and did not flee the scene.
A witness told CNN that after the shooting, she approached the suspect and asked him if he was okay before she realized he was the perpetrator.
The suspect entered the Jewish Museum after the shooting, where he waited for the police to arrive, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
An eyewitness said, "I went to him and asked him if he was okay, and he kept mumbling over and over again, saying, 'Call the police,' and then he said he was fine." Then I asked him if he had been shot, and he said no."
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وأفاد بأن إطلاق النار وقع بالقرب من مكتب التحقيقات الفيدرالي في واشنطن، وأن ضباط شرطة المكتب استجابوا على الفور وقدموا المساعدة بعد الهجوم.
ووقع الحادث بالقرب من المتحف اليهودي في العاصمة، الأربعاء، في نفس الليلة التي كانت اللجنة اليهودية الأمريكية تعقد فيها حدثاً للمهنيين الشباب.
وُصف حفل استقبال الدبلوماسيين الشباب، الذي نفدت تذاكره بالكامل، بأنه فعالية «تجمع المهنيين الشباب اليهود (22-45 عاماً) والسلك الدبلوماسي».
The FBI Deputy Director said that the suspect is being questioned by Washington D.C. police in cooperation with the FBI's joint counter-terrorism teams.
He said that the shooting occurred near the FBI office in Washington, and that FBI police officers responded immediately and provided assistance after the attack.
The incident occurred near the Jewish Museum in the capital on Wednesday [May 21], the same night the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event for young professionals.
The sold-out reception for young diplomats was described as an event "bringing together young Jewish professionals (22-45 years old) and the diplomatic corps."
[الخليج United Arab Emirates on May 22]
Related News:
Charles Kushner, a real estate mogul and the father of President Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law, was confirmed Monday, May 19, by the Senate to serve as the U.S. ambassador to France despite felony convictions that were wiped away by presidential pardon.
[Quoted from Politico]
Headline: The Felix Klein Case - Schrödinger's Federal Commissioner
Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner is no longer tenable after his statements in favour of Trump's plannings for the Gaza strip and ethnic cleansing. While contradicting official German policy on Palestine in an interview, he is violating his duties as a federal official on behalf of the government. However, the German Federal Government is still using a trick to avoid necessary consequences, declaring an official statement as 'private opinion'.
[nd - aktuell.de, Germany 07-03-2025]
إدانات دولية وأممية بعد توسيع الاحتلال عدوانه الوحشي على قطاع غزة
وفي عام 2023الماضي، طلبت الحكومة الإسرائيلية شراء آلاف القذائف للدبابات، إلى جانب طلبات الحصول على أسلحة إضافية، لكن برلين لم تتخذ قرارا بعد بشأن البيع.
وفي ما يتعلق أيضا بتصدير المعدات الأمنية الدفاعية، فقد تم تسجيل انخفاض كبير هذا العام، ففي عام 2023، بلغ حجم هذه الصادرات أكثر من 300 مليون يورو، بينما انخفض في عام 2024 إلى 14 مليونا فقط. بسبب الحرب.
وفقا لـ"يديعوت أحرنوت"، فقد "كان عام 2023 عاما غير عادي من حيث حجم الصادرات الدفاعية من ألمانيا إلى إسرائيل"، ويأتي انخفاض الصادرات العسكرية من ألمانيا إلى إسرائيل على خلفية الضغوط الدولية على إسرائيل، لتجنب إيذاء المدنيين الأبرياء في الحرب في غزة.
International and UN condemnations after the expansion of the occupation's brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip
In 2023, the Israeli government requested the purchase of thousands of tank shells, along with requests for additional weapons, but Berlin has not yet made a decision on the sale.
Regarding the export of defense security equipment, there has also been a significant decline this year. In 2023, the volume of these exports was more than 300 million euros, while in 2024 it dropped to just 14 million due to the war.
According to [Israel's] Yedioth Ahronoth, "2023 was an unusual year in terms of the volume of defense exports from Germany to Israel." The decline in military exports from Germany to Israel comes amid international pressure on Israel to avoid harming innocent civilians in the war in Gaza.
[arabi21 on May 24]
Latest on May 25: German Foreign Minister Wadepuhl, member of the only recently formed centrist government, delivered a statement that followed what 'arabi21' quoted as a 'new stance on Israel'.
In November 2024, an Iranian hacker group published documents they allegedly earned from hacking Israeli government networks and private accounts of Israeli politicians. Some pro-Iranian source later republished a choice of documents on X before they were deleted, saying: "Take what you could use ...". Among them was an email allegedly sent from Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, to Israel's office at the United Nations in New York. That document, if it was genuine, should prove illegal activity of some "Jewish brigade" in Germany. As I rather like to avoid being involved in any illegal activity whatsoever myself, I just publish that X post without further comment for good-willing readers.
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