After Museum Shooting, Jewish Groups Call for $1B in Security Funding

Ben Sales

After a gunman murdered two people outside a Jewish museum, a wide range of major Jewish groups has asked the federal government to sharply increase its funding for religious institutions’ security to $1 billion.

The request is one of several made by the coalition in the wake of the attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, when a shooter killed two employees of the Israeli embassy . In the wake of the shooting, Jewish security analysts are assessing what went wrong, and how such attacks can be prevented in the future .

One piece of that prevention, says the Jewish groups’ statement, is more government funding.

“The apparently targeted attack on individuals attending an event at a Jewish museum and hosted by a Jewish organization represents an elevation in