Israel indicts Jewish man accused of attacking Christian nun in Jerusalem
The attack drew wide condemnation from Christian leaders and prompted Israel’s attorney general to seek continued detention of the suspect.
- The State Attorney's Office indicted 36-year-old Yona Schreiber on Thursday for attacking a nun in Jerusalem's Old City, alleging he pushed and kicked the woman because she wore a religious habit.
- Widespread condemnation followed video footage of the assault; Israel Police arrested Schreiber last week, and prosecutors charged him with assault motivated by religious hostility.
- This attack follows several recent incidents targeting Christian symbols and figures, including soldiers desecrating religious statues in recent weeks; religious groups have documented rising harassment against clergy.
- Wadie Abunassar, coordinator of the Holy Land Christian Forum, characterized these attacks as a growing phenomenon, expressing "great anger on the system" over insufficient deterrence against such violence.
- Last month, the Foreign Ministry appointed Ambassador George Deek as special envoy to the Christian world, emphasizing Israel's commitment to preserving religious freedom and the dignity of all religions.
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Jerusalem is not only a point on the map. It is the spiritual epicenter where the three great monotheistic religions converge. It is a city where faith defines, but also where history weighs and where coexistence, although imperfect, exists. In the last days, a serious fact shook that delicate reality: the aggression against a nun on Mount Zion, an area of very high religious sensitivity where central symbols of Christianity and Judaism coexist.…
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Independent EspañolIsrael filed charges on Thursday against a Jewish man for a violent attack on a nun near the Old City of Jerusalem last week, the latest in a series of high-profile incidents targeting Christians and religious symbols.
Israeli settler to face trial over attack on nun in Jerusalem
An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel's justice ministry said on Thursday. The assault on the nun, a 48-year-old researcher at Jerusalem's French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, occurred on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City. The suspect, named Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, is from an illegal set…
Israel Charges Jewish Man for Violent Assault on Nun.
Israeli authorities have indicted a Jewish man for an unprovoked, violent assault on a num in Jerusalem, amid a spate of anti-Christian incidents that have damaged the country’s international reputation. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A Jewish man has been indicted for assaulting a Catholic nun in Jerusalem. The attack was reportedly motivated by religious hostility. DETAIL: On Thursday, Yona Schreiber, a 36-year-old Jewish man from the Israeli set…
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