Salman Hamud Fallah

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.

In 1986 he was a lecturer on Islamic Law and the Druze Legacy at the University of Haifa.

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.

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 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.

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.

The mayor of Haifa (1955), Abba Hushi, took an interest and followed career of the first Druze student in the Reali School.

After graduating high school in 1955, Salman was refused as a volunteer in the army and only after his first academic degree was he called as a lecturer to the reserve forces during 19 years. Later, Salman married Kamilia; they have six children.

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.

Salman studied at Pikiin village in the elementary school and continued at Tera Santa School in Nazareth. In 1953 he began his studies at The Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.

Salman Hamud Fallah (Arabic: سلمان حمود فلاح February 16, 1935 – August 12, 2016), 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 (1963), he fulfilled his PHD at Princeton University in the USA (1997). 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.

The family tree of the Fallac family is connected to the Shahin family who immigrated to Smeav village in 1711. The family name was changed to Falach which includes four home family names: Fandy, Joseph, Said and Ali.