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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Washington, DC, shooting attack 2025

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
Rabbi Doug Alpert speaks at the funeral of Sarah Milgrim at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas, on May 27, 2025. (Screenshot via JTA)
May 28, 2025, 3:45 am
Murdered Israeli Embassy staffer remembered for ‘all she had done to further peace’
‘If you’re really interested in doing something for Gaza… you could have asked’ Sarah Milgrim, says rabbi at Kansas City funeral, in remarks seemingly addressed at shooter who yelled ‘Free Palestine’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Family and friends arrive at Congregation Beth Torah for a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed last week outside a Washington, DC, Jewish museum, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
May 27, 2025, 11:43 pm
Kansas Jewish community holds funeral for Israeli Embassy staffer slain in DC
Family and friends hold private service at Overland Park synagogue, where Sarah Milgrim attended through high school with her family; Vance visits the embassy to pay respects
By MARGERY A. BECK
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pose for a picture during a memorial event honoring slain Israeli embassy employees in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)
May 26, 2025, 10:18 pm
Foreign Ministry hosts memorial service for embassy workers killed in DC shooting
Ceremony for Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hosted by FM Gideon Sa’ar and attended by US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem, US envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee
By ToI Staff
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during the US Coast Guard Academy's 144th Commencement, in New London, Connecticut, on May 21, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/ AFP)
May 25, 2025, 8:07 pm
US homeland security chief flies to Israel for memorial for slain embassy staffers
Kristi Noem set to accompany FM Sa’ar at Monday morning ceremony for Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim in Jerusalem
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
A video by Guy Christensen, an American anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian influencer with more than 3 million followers. (Screenshot via JTA)
May 24, 2025, 5:24 am
Popular US pro-Palestinian TikTok influencer endorses murder of Israeli embassy staffers
After initially condemning killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, Guy Christensen tells his over 3 million followers that shooter ‘isn’t a terrorist. He’s a resistance fighter’
By Ben Sales
A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cell phone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that killed two people, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
May 23, 2025, 4:19 pm
Fatal DC shooting is grim validation for those who warned of ‘Free Palestine’ violence
Through almost 20 months of war with Hamas sparked by Oct. 7, fears grew that anti-Israel, antisemitic vitriol could result in bloodshed. Then came Wednesday’s murders at the Capital Jewish Museum
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters are escorted out of Columbia University's Butler Library after being arrested for occupying the library space on May 7, 2025, in New York City.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
May 23, 2025, 3:02 pm
Will the DC killings lead Trump to crack down harder on pro-Palestinian activists?
After attack by gunman who then shouted ‘Free Palestine,’ right-wing Jewish groups and conservative lawmakers say US must ‘quash the terrorism-promoting demonstrations’ on campuses
By Ron Kampeas
A police car patrols near a Chabad center in Miami Beach, Florida, May 22, 2025, following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)
May 23, 2025, 1:26 pm
Jewish groups urge $1b in federal funding to secure institutions after deadly DC attack
Over 40 Jewish groups request money for protection at synagogues, day schools; call museum shooting a ‘direct consequence’ of spiking antisemitism in public spaces, on social media
By Ben Sales
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit in Kingston upon Hull, England, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool via AP); France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Michel Euler/Pool/AFP); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)
May 23, 2025, 1:13 pm
PM: Starmer, Macron, Carney ’emboldening Hamas,’ are on ‘wrong side of humanity, history’
‘When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice,’ says Netanyahu, after leaders of UK, France, and Canada issue joint statement
By ToI Staff
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