The body of Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli embassy employee gunned down in a possible antisemitic attack in Washington D.C. this week, was expected to arrive back in the Jewish state on Friday, officials said.

The President led U.S. lawmakers in condemning the killings and said they were "based obviously on antisemitism."

Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were departing an event Wednesday evening when they were gunned down and killed.

Two Israeli embassy employees were shot and killed outside a Washington, D.C., museum Wednesday night. The FBI is looking into whether it was a hate crime.