THE Israeli Embassy staffers who were killed outside Washington DC’s Jewish Museum have been remembered as a madly in love couple who were in the prime of their lives.

Yaron Lischinsky, 28, had secretly bought an engagement ring to propose to girlfriend Sarah Milgrim just days before they were shot to death.

Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old from Chicago, Illinois, has been accused of rushing at the couple as they walked out of an American Jewish Committee event on Wednesday evening.

After he was arrested, the alleged killer was caught on video screaming, “Free Palestine.” Officials have described the attack as targeted.

Milgrim and Lischinsky, who were both Jewish, were working for the Israeli Embassy when they were killed. Milgrim helped plan missions for Jewish people in America, and Lischinsky was a research assistant.

On Sunday, the couple was set to fly to Jerusalem, where Milgrim, who was American, was going to meet Israel-native Lischinsky’s family.

She didn’t know that her boyfriend of a year and a half was planning to propose at some point during the trip.

Milgrim’s heartbroken parents have opened up about their love for Lischinsky as they described him as an “incredible” man who was devoted to their daughter.

“He was very much like Sarah: passionate, extremely intelligent, dedicated to what he does, always on the cause of what’s right,” her dad Robert told the New York Times.

Tal Naim Cohen, a spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy, mourned the loss of the couple and described seeing their affection for one another just hours before their deaths.

“Yaron and Sarah, words cannot begin to describe the heartbreak and sorrow,” she wrote on X.

“Just this morning, we were still laughing together by the coffee corner – and now, all that remains is a picture.

“Instead of walking you down the aisle, we are walking with you to your graves. What an unbearable loss.”

In a statement released by the Embassy, the two were described as being in the “prime of their lives.”

“The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder,” the statement said.

“No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss. Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy will be by their side during this terrible time.”

COUPLE’S HISTORY

Lischinsky was born in Germany and moved to Israel when he was 16. He met Milgrim after moving to America in September 2022 to start his job at the Embassy, the Times of Israel reported.

According to his LinkedIn page, he was working to expand “the circle of peace with our Arab neighbors.”

“To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding,” he wrote.

Milgrim was also passionate about finding solutions between Israeli and Palestinian communities and wrote on her LinkedIn page that she wanted to foster “understanding between different peoples.”

Before going into diplomacy, Milgrim lived in Kansas City, Missouri, where a white supremacist fatally shot three Jewish people when she was a teenager.

At the time, she told local media that she was living in fear after people painted swastikas in her high school, the Times of Israel reported.

HORROR SHOOTING

Rodriguez was reportedly seen pacing around the museum before he allegedly opened fire on the couple.

A terrifying video captured the moment he was arrested and screamed out in protest.

Dan Bongino, who is the deputy director of the FBI, said that early signs indicate “this is an act of targeted violence.”

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a “terrible price of antisemitism and wild incitement against Israel.”

And President Donald Trump said the killings were “based obviously” on anti-Jewish sentiments.

“Hatred and radicalism have no place in the USA,” he said in a statement.