There's been a fair amount of coverage of that uncomfortable moment in Jerusalem, when Pope Francis corrected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the language Jesus spoke. He spoke Hebrew, said the Israeli head of state; no, corrected the Pope, he spoke Aramaic.
According to the account by Reuters, Netanyahu was trying to impress Pope Francis by emphasizing the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, saying, "Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew." As Elon Gilad put it in Haaretz, Netanyahu's father, a historian, "would have probably been dismayed" by his son's miscue.
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