Sa’ar meets US homeland security chief to discuss ‘fight against antisemitism’

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28 August 2025, 11:13 pm

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Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar lays a wreath outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, August 28, 2025, at the site of the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in May. (Shmulik Almani/Foreign Ministry)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met in Washington today with US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to address ways to combat antisemitism, the minister writes in a post on X.

The two “discussed concrete ways to cooperate in the fight against antisemitism,” according to Sa’ar, who thanks Noem “for standing firmly by Israel and American Jewry,” calling her “a true friend of Israel.”

Ahead of the meeting, Sa’ar lays a wreath outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, at the site of the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple working at the Israeli embassy in Washington who were killed in a May shooting attack.

Noem visited Israel in the wake of the attack and attended a memorial ceremony hosted by Sa’ar.