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Washington, DC, shooting attack 2025

People attend a candlelight vigil at Lafayette Square across from the White House in Washington, on May 22, 2025, for the two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in a shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum the previous day. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
May 6, 2026, 1:06 pm
ADL: Antisemitic assaults in US hit record high in 2025 as overall incidents declined
In a year with 203 violent incidents, including the murders of three Jews, the total number of incidents dropped 33% from 2024’s record high
By Zev Stub
Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)
April 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors
In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents
By Lianne Kolirin
Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
April 12, 2026, 1:24 pm
Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch
By Stuart Winer
People gather to light candles in a makeshift memorial to honor Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim who were killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, during a candlelight vigil outside of the White House in Washington, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
February 5, 2026, 4:12 am
Terror charges added to indictment against man accused of killing Israeli Embassy staffers
Defendant in murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hit with four additional counts of terrorism that US attorney in DC notes ‘carry a mandatory life sentence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 20, 2025, 6:51 am
US prosecutors: Suspect wore body camera to record killing of Israeli Embassy staffers
Court filing says Elias Rodriguez ordered camera to DC hotel where he was staying before shooting dead Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, underlining attack’s premeditated nature
By Michael Kunzelman
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 22, 2025, 4:28 am
Reform movement opposes death penalty for accused killer of Israeli embassy staffers
Director of Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism sends letter to US attorney general calling capital punishment ‘a stain upon civilization and our religious conscience’
By Grace Gilson
Police arrest a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protester near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the Met Gala takes place, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
August 13, 2025, 2:09 pm
Daily Briefing Aug 13: Day 677 – Antisemitic crime down in NY, but Jews most targeted group
New York reporter Luke Tress discusses a rise in groups challenging antisemitism, and a possible death penalty for the alleged killer of 2 Israel Embassy staffers
By Jessica Steinberg and Luke Tress
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro speaks during a news conference on charges related to the deadly shooting of Israeli Embassy staff during a news conference at the Attorney General's office for the District of Columbia in Washington, on August 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
August 7, 2025, 9:57 pm
US prosecutors consider death penalty for alleged killer of Israeli embassy staffers
Nine-count indictment against Elias Rodriguez for May shooting of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, designates attack an anti-Israel hate crime
By Luke Tress
Left: Yaron Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim, employees of the Israeli Embassy in the US, killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025, in an undated photo. (Israeli Embassy, Washington); Right: The suspect in the shooting, Elias Rodriguez, shouts 'Free Palestine' as he is arrested. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 7, 2025, 9:36 am
Suspect in killing of Israeli Embassy staffers charged with hate crimes
Elias Rodriguez eligible for death penalty over May killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside AJC event in Washington
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US security officers surround the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025, following a shooting that killed two people outside the Capital Jewish Museum the day before. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
June 30, 2025, 11:54 pm
Trump administration releases $94 million in security grants for Jewish institutions
Remainder of funding is stalled, even as US Department of Homeland Security cites ‘deeply disturbing rise in antisemitic attacks’
By Grace Gilson
A protest led by Within Our Lifetime in Manhattan, September 17, 2021. (Luke Tress)
June 3, 2025, 6:28 am
With attacks in Washington and Colorado, the global intifada lands in America
Unlike antisemitic killings in Pittsburgh, New Jersey and elsewhere, these assaults appear to be an outgrowth of a protest movement where violence against Jews and Israelis has been normalized
By Luke Tress
Supporters arrive to place bouquets of flowers at a growing memorial outside of the Boulder County, Colorado, courthouse after Sunday's antisemitic firebombing attack on a march for Israeli hostages held by Hamas, June 2, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
June 2, 2025, 7:29 pm
Colorado suspect planned attack for a year, wanted to ‘kill all Zionist people’ — FBI
Alleged firebomber, held on $10 million bond, is Egyptian national in US illegally; leader of hostage rally that was attacked says he ‘saw flames all over’ woman who was most severely wounded
By Luke Tress
Mohamed Sabry Soliman (right), the suspect who allegedly attacked pro-Israel activists (left) in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Screen capture/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 2, 2025, 2:49 am
Several wounded in flamethrower, firebomb attack on Colorado rally for Israeli hostages
FBI calls incident a ‘targeted terror attack’; footage shows suspect, an Egyptian national, screaming ‘End Zionists’ at scene; PM blames ‘blood libels’ against Israel, Jews
By Luke Tress and Jacob Magid
Protesters attend a march against antisemitism in London, UK, December 8, 2024. (Campaign Against Antisemitism)
May 29, 2025, 5:06 am
More organizations are fighting surging antisemitism. But how many do we need?
In a once-niche field of Jewish advocacy, a complicated mix of interest groups is now battling hatred, often with overlapping missions and contradictory messages
By Zev Stub
Pastor Chad Holland Messianic congregation Kings of Kings in Jerusalem honors Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim on May 25, 2025, after their murder in an antisemitic attack in Washington DC. Lischinsky used to belong to the congregation’s youth group. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
May 28, 2025, 4:20 pm
For Messianic Jews in Jerusalem, Yaron Lischinsky’s murder was a personal loss  
Marginalized in Israel, adherents of the controversial movement maintain the holiness of both the Bible and the Christian Gospel, placing an emphasis on the Jewish identity of Jesus
By Rossella Tercatin
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