showing solidarity
‘We will not let hatred have the final word,’ Noem says at Jerusalem ceremony honoring slain diplomats
Israel’s controversial national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, also met with Noem and says she invited him to visit the U.S.

David Azagury, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem pays her condolences at a memory ceremony for slain Israeli Embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrm who were killed in a terror attack in Washington D.C., on May 21, 2025. The Ceremony took place at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters on May 26, 2025.
The murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim is a reminder “of the dreams that terrorism seeks to destroy every single day,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Monday, standing alongside Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar at...