Our founders

Father Joseph Stiassny, Father of Sion, was among the first group of Catholics that worked to set up the Oeuvre Saint Jacques.

Rina Geftman was a luminous presence in the Jerusalem community from the time of her arrival in Jerusalem in 1966.

Jean-Baptiste Gourion, Benedictine, first Patriarchal Vicar for the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community in Israel, was born Jean-Louis Gourion on October 24, 1934 in Oran, Algeria to a Jewish family.

Father Alfred Delmée was pastor of the kehilla in Tel Aviv – Jaffa for twenty seven years (1958-1985).

Father Jean-Roger Héné, Assumptionist, was the founder of the kehilla in Beer Sheba.

Father Daniel (Oswald) Rufeisen Carm, founder of the kehilla in Haifa, was born in 1922 in Zadziele in Poland to a Jewish family.

Father Bruno Hussar, Dominican, was in the first group of founders of the Oeuvre Saint Jacques.