“I have instructed to enhance security arrangements at Israeli missions around the world and to increase protection for state representatives,“ he said.
Gunfire broke out late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum in the centre of Washington as the venue held a social event for young professionals and diplomatic staff.
The victims were a young couple who planned to get married, according to the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter.
“This is a despicable act of hatred, of anti-Semitism, which has claimed the lives of two young employees of the Israeli embassy,“ Herzog said, adding: “Terror and hate will not break us.”
“Israeli representatives around the world are constantly exposed to heightened risk -- especially in these times,“ he said.
Far-right members of Netanyahu's government also responded, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich linking the shooting to “the same burning anti-Semitic hatred” that fuelled the October 2023 Hamas attack which triggered the Gaza war.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir accused domestic critics of the Gaza war of fuelling anti-Semitism abroad.
The comments were an apparent reference to left-wing politician Yair Golan, who sparked controversy earlier this week for suggesting Israel was on its way “to becoming a pariah state”, and that “a sane country... does not kill babies for a hobby”.
On Thursday, Golan said on X that it was actually Netanyahu's right-wing government that was “fuelling anti-Semitism and hatred toward Israel, resulting in unprecedented diplomatic isolation and danger to every Jew across the globe”.
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