Bruno Hussar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bruno Hussar

Egyptian priest

Date of Birth: 05-May-1911

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1996

Profession: priest

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Father Bruno Hussar (5 May 1911 – 8 February 1996) was the founder of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, which means "Oasis of Peace," an Arab/Jewish village dedicated to coexistence.
Father Bruno derived the name from the book of Isaiah (32:18) "My people shall dwell in an Oasis of Peace".
Born in Cairo, he converted to Roman Catholicism while studying engineering in France.
He was a genuinely 'transnational transcultural and multilingual' individual.Before he founded the village, Father Bruno established the House of Isaiah in Jerusalem, a Jewish-Catholic ecumenical study center.
He came to Jerusalem to establish this institution in 1952.
For many years, he was also a leader and priest for the Hebrew Christians, a tiny congregation of Hebrew-speaking Catholic residents and Israeli Jewish converts to Catholicism.