Sarah Milgrim's household says her beingness was afloat of emotion earlier she was fatally changeable past month alongside her fellow Yaron Lischinsky extracurricular the Capital Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C. The young couple, who some worked for the Israeli Embassy, were leaving a diplomatic lawsuit discussing however to get more aid into Gaza when they were killed.
"She wasn't against the Palestinians. She wasn't against the radical successful Gaza. She was successful each her bosom moving towards uncovering a mode for everyone to unrecorded unneurotic peacefully," her mother, Nancy Milgrim, told CBS News arsenic the household sat down for their archetypal web TV interrogation since the fatal shooting.
"Sarah molded us"
Family members described Sarah arsenic the "perfect child," a person of the situation and radical — particularly her household and community. But thing her begetter admired adjacent much was her unthinkable strength.
"You know, usually a genitor tries to mold her child. Sarah molded us. She was a stronger idiosyncratic than I ever was," her father, Robert Milgrim, said of the 26-year-old, who grew up successful Johnson County, Kansas. "I'm a antithetic idiosyncratic present than earlier this happened… from learning truthful overmuch astir what Sarah did and her courage… and her striving for peace."
Sarah Milgrim made respective trips to Israel, archetypal for her bat mitzvah successful Jerusalem and again successful college. Then she joined Tech2Peace, a work-study programme for Israelis and Palestinians. She started moving for the Israeli Embassy successful November 2023 aft graduating with a master's grade successful International Affairs from American University, wherever she fell successful emotion with Yaron.
"We saw their emotion blossom for each other. And we knew however beardown it was," her begetter said.
It wasn't until aft their deaths that the Milgrims learned the mates had adjacent bigger beingness plans. Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., revealed that Lischinsky, 30, was planning to propose to Milgrim connected their upcoming travel to Israel. In the days aft the shooting, Sarah's ma besides learned from a person that Sarah went ringing buying to springiness Yaron immoderate tips.
"We didn't cognize that helium was going to suggest then," Mr. Milgrim previously told CBS News. "And the ambassador told america that helium knew that he'd bought the ringing and was going to contiguous it to her successful Jerusalem."
"What does it accomplish?"
Antisemitism and information fears among Jewish-Americans rose in the U.S. pursuing Hamas' violent onslaught connected Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, taking 250 hostage and igniting a deadly warfare successful the Gaza Strip. Protests implicit the Israel-Hamas war emerged successful cities and assemblage campuses crossed the state — with immoderate ending successful violence.
On Sunday, astatine slightest 12 radical were injured successful an attack on a march successful enactment of Israeli hostages astatine the outdoor Pearl Street Mall successful Boulder, Colorado. Witnesses said the fishy hurled Molotov cocktails and was allegedly heard shouting "Free Palestine." Sarah Milgrim's alleged slayer besides shouted "Free, escaped Palestine" earlier helium was taken into custody, according to instrumentality enforcement officials, who called it a targeted attack.
Her older brother, Jacob, called the unit senseless.
"There is thing much important successful Judaism than beingness and the sanctity of beingness — and to what extremity is this warring and sacrifice? What does it accomplish?" helium said. "Taking my sister ... it's not going to execute anything."
Now Sarah Milgrim's household is near with a spread successful their hearts.
"Right now, I'm hurt. I'm excessively wounded to accidental it's choler oregon frustration. I don't cognize what I'm going to consciousness aboriginal on, to beryllium honorable with you," Mr. Milgrim said.
The Milgrims are readying a travel to Israel successful the autumn to conscionable with Lischinsky's household and sojourn his grave.
Watch much of CBS News' interrogation with the Milgrim household connected the "CBS Evening News."
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