She made me want to be more Jewish,” said Amanda Birger, a former University of Kansas classmate who met Milgrim at KU Hillel, a Jewish organization at the college.

Lischinsky, a 30-year-old Israeli citizen, had deep ties to his country’s Messianic Jewish community.

Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel remembers having Shabbat dinners with Sarah Milgrim at the University of Kansas Chabad, where she had a large group of Jewish friends and was “full of energy.” “She was passionate.

Last night, my friend and fellow climate activist Sarah Milgrim and her soon-to-be fiancé, Yaron Lischinsky, were murdered in cold blood by a terrorist who shouted “Free Palestine” after taking their lives. It was a horrifying, antisemitic assassination that has left those who knew and loved them reeling.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said early Thursday morning that the country remains united with the families of slain embassy staffers.  Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were fatally shot

STORY: These two Israeli embassy staffers were killed by a lone gunman, while leaving an event outside Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said.Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were soon to be engaged,

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim hailed from different parts of the world, but their paths led them both to pursue careers in diplomacy and to the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC – where they found each other and fell in love.