Neve Shalom, also known as Wahat as-Salam is a cooperative village in Israel, jointly founded by Israeli Jews and Arabs in an attempt to show that the two peoples can live side by side peacefully, as
Bruno Hussar was the founder of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, an Arab/Jewish village in the no man's land between Israel and Palestine, dedicated to coexistence. Hussar derived the name from the book
Neve Shalom
…name Neve Shalom is taken from a passage in the Isaiah 32:18: "My people shall dwell in an oasis of peace". The village was the brainchild of Father Bruno Hussar. Born in Egypt the son of non-practicing Jews, he converted to Christianity while studying engineering in France. Witnessing at first hand the vitriolic…