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미국 수도 워싱턴에서 벌어진 팔레스타인 사람에 의한 충격적인 암살 테러의 내용을 가지고

영어훈련하겠습니다.

서울에서 암살 테러가 일어난다면 얼마나 충격적일까요?

그러한 충격을 느끼면서 글을 읽으시면 심각함을 느끼실 수 있겠습니다.

더구나 암살당한 두 사람이 평화를 위해 노력한 연인 사이의 이스라엘 커플이었다는 것이

사건의 슬픔을 더 합니다.

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Israeli Embassy Staffers Gunned Down in D.C. Were Young, Ascendant and in Love

The young professionals were known to those close to them as devoted to peace efforts

By Anat Peled

The day before he was killed, Yaron Lischinsky was on the phone with an airline, anxiously searching for alternatives for a canceled flight to Israel. Standing outside the auditorium hall of a policy conference in Washington, he confided to a friend that he was taking his girlfriend to meet his parents for the first time in Jerusalem—and that he planned to propose on the trip.

“I think I’m going to do that there,” the 30-year-old Israeli Embassy staffer excitedly told Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, a friend who spoke Thursday to The Wall Street Journal. Lischinsky’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim, also worked at the embassy.

The following evening, the couple were leaving an event when they were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington by a man who had been pacing outside the building. As he was arrested, the suspected shooter, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” Lischinsky and Milgram were pronounced dead at the scene.

The shocking killing of the two young embassy staffers has reverberated around the world, not only because of the brutality of the attack but because of who they were. Neither were high-level diplomats, but rather rising young professionals known to those close to them as devoted to bridge-building, including peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians.

“That smile that you see in the photo, that’s actually how he looked all the time,” Mansour said of Lischinsky. “This is really a tragedy, not just for his family and the couple and the D.C. community but for the entire nation.”

Lischinsky and Milgrim met at the situation room of the embassy in the fall of 2023. They quickly formed a bond as they supported each other in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel that year, said Noa Ginosar, Lischinsky’s boss at the embassy. The attack left 1,200 people dead.

The couple were discreet and didn’t make it known they were together for a while, but it was clear to people close to them that it was the real deal.

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