During his Christmas sermon at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV cites Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai’s poem, the only non-biblical source in his address.

<p>A Jew entered Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) on Thursday evening without coordinating with security authorities.</p><p>Civil Administration forces acted to extract him from the site.</p>

US forces strike ISIS targets in northwest Nigeria after Trump’s order, responding to terrorist attacks on Christians. Trump calls the strikes “powerful and deadly” in a Truth Social post.

<p>Four people were injured - two men seriously and two others lightly - in an accident involving two private vehicles in Nazareth.</p><p>Magen David Adom paramedics provided medical treatment to the injured and evacuated them to the English Hospital.</p>

A civilian reports seeing a woman in uniform entering an Arab vehicle near the Elias Junction, prompting an intensive search operation by Border Police and IDF forces.

<p>Captivity survivor Romi Gonen was interviewed on the <i>Keshet 12 </i>program Uvda and, for the first time, shared a harrowing account of what she experienced during her time in Hamas captivity.</p><p>Among other things, she described sexual assaults carried out by the terrorists and how one of them pressed a gun to her head and threatened her not to speak about it.</p>