23-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
The Final Moments of Two Promising Lives Cut Short by a Gunman Fixated on Gaza
It was Wednesday evening, around 9 p.m., and Ran Goldstein, a humanitarian aid worker for the Israeli charity IsraAID, had just finished a panel discussion at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The theme: how organizations like his had managed to work in places like Gaza and Syria to alleviate suffering.
'Every evening in Washington is like this,' Goldstein said, recalling the usual procession of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and networking. (In this case, the sushi and wasabi were kosher.)