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Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem

Yona Simcha Schreiber, a 36-year-old Israeli settler from the occupied West Bank's Peduel settlement, will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group after attacking a 48-year-old French Catholic nun in Jerusalem's Mount Zion area. The assault, captured on surveillance footage, involved pushing the nun to the ground and kicking her, drawing condemnation from the French consulate, Hebrew University's Faculty of Humanities, and Israel's foreign ministry, which highlighted a troubling pattern of rising anti-Christian hostility in the region.