Yona Simcha Schreiber from settlement in West Bank faces charge of assault motivated by hostility towards religious group
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 has said.
The attack 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, Yona Simcha Schreiber, 36, is from a settlement in the occupied West Bank named Peduel.
He has been under arrest since 29 April and the prosecution has asked that he remain in detention until the trial, the ministry said in a statement. Schreiber faces a charge of assault resulting in injuries, motivated by hostility towards a religious group.
