page_title: Salman Hamud Fallah
section_title: Education, society, higher education and public activity
hierarchical_section_title: Salman Hamud Fallah / Education, society, higher education and public activity
caption_attribution_description: עברית: סלמאן אביו ואחיו פארס בכפר סמיע
context_page_description: Salman Hamud Fallah, was an educator, writer, and a history researcher who established the Druze Scouts Association in Israel. He was a supervisor at the Druze Education department and a vice president of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Falach wrote more than 80 books in Arabic, Hebrew and English on history and education. As a teenager he moved to Haifa city, where he graduated from secondary school at the Hebrew Reali School in 1954.
  After graduating his studies for the first and second degree, he fulfilled his PHD at Princeton University in the USA. Dr. Salman Hamud Fallah implemented the legacy of Druze studies as an integral part of the higher education curriculum. In 2017 the Centre of the Druze Legacy was established in his name in his native village Kisra-Smea.
context_section_description: While studying for a BA at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1957-1959), Salman worked as a teacher at Beit Zafafa.
  The first milestone in Fallah 's academic career was in Middle East studies where he earned BA degree in 1959, an MA in Islamic Culture in 1963, and graduation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  Fallac established the Druze Scouts Association in 1954 with his teacher at the Reali school Arie Chroch. The president of Israel Izchak Ben Zvi greeted him by joining the Druze Scouts to the Israeli Scouts. Sheik Amin Tarif supported this initiative and the first scout troops were established in Smea village. Later there were other Druze troops in other Druze villages. The activity of those troops was a cultural breaking point among the new generation by enlarging their horizons beyond the village and the group. Dr Salman Hamud Fallah was chairman of the Druze Scouts Association until 1964 when he was elected for an unlimited period.
  In 1959, Fallah worked as a parliamentary correspondent at the Israeli Parliament representing El-Yum newspaper, later, he enlarged his activity as a radio correspondent of Kol Israel (the Voice of Israel) in Arabic.
  He was a member of the organization named "Tolerance" working towards tolerance in the Israeli society, a member of the Druze Community Center, and a member of the board at the high school in Yarka.
  After the Six-Day War in 1967, he was nominated as an inspector general for Arab Education in Israel and developed the curriculum for schools in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights.
  In 1975 Fallah was nominated as a chairman of the Druze Education and Culture Executive Committee in the Israeli government. He continued this role until 2000 when he retired. Falach's main achievement was to separate the Arab and the Druze curriculum, which created an independent educational system for the Druze population. In 1979 he taught Druze Legacy at the Gordon College of Education in Haifa.
  In 1986 he was a lecturer on Islamic Law and the Druze Legacy at the University of Haifa.
  In 2006 he received the confirmation of the Council for Higher Education and was nominated as the head of the Druze Legacy at the Gordon College.
  Dr. Salman Hamud Fallah was a member of the board of governors of the University of Haifa.
caption: Salman, his father Hamud and his brother Fares
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