The brother of slain Israeli embassy staffer Yaron Lischinsky will attend US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tonight as a guest of US House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Lischinsky and his partner, Sarah Milgrim, were fatally shot while leaving an American Jewish Committee event for young professionals and diplomats at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington last May.
In a press release announcing the guests who will be joining him at the address, Johnson says Hanan Lischinsky, Yaron’s brother, “has shown remarkable courage in shedding light on the extremism that took his brother’s life.”
“I am honored to invite him as my guest for President Trump’s State of the Union address,” adds Johnson.
The speaker will be hosting a number of other guests for the address, including the four crew members of NASA’s planned lunar spaceflight mission Artemis II, and the daughters of two people imprisoned by China — Dr. Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur Muslim, and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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