{"id":522589,"date":"2026-08-27T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522589"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:14:41","slug":"video-man-who-attacked-nun-acquitted-due-to-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/video-man-who-attacked-nun-acquitted-due-to-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Man who attacked nun acquitted due to mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Israeli court has acquitted a 36-year-old Jewish man who <strong>attacked a French nun in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City<\/strong>, after ruling that he was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yona Schreiber was caught on CCTV pushing the nun to the ground and kicking her in April. She suffered injuries to her face and leg after hitting her head on a stone block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled that Schreiber was <strong>not criminally responsible because of his mental state<\/strong> and ordered that he be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for up to six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schreiber had been charged with assault motivated by hostility toward a religious group. The prosecution accepted a psychiatrist\u2019s assessment that he was experiencing psychosis when the attack occurred and supported his acquittal and hospitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident sparked widespread condemnation and renewed concerns over <strong>harassment of Christian clergy and pilgrims by Jewish extremists<\/strong> in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French Consulate in Jerusalem condemned the attack, while Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry described it as a \u201cshameful act\u201d and reaffirmed its commitment to religious freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757\ufe0f Israeli SETTLER ACQUITTED after assaulting Christian nun in Jerusalem \u2014 Al-Quds Network<br><br>An Israeli court found Yona Schreiber not criminally responsible, ruling he was suffering from mental illness at the time of the attack <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwlE2W92Pu\">pic.twitter.com\/OwlE2W92Pu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RT_com\/status\/2092597963100914166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli court has acquitted a 36-year-old Jewish man who attacked a French nun in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, after ruling that he was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the incident. Yona Schreiber was caught on CCTV pushing the nun to the ground and kicking her in April. She suffered injuries to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-522589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bWR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-27-121303.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-08-27-121303.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}