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Muhana Fares
Sheikh Mohana Fares (born in 1960) is an Israeli-Druze educator and religious figure, Deputy Director-General and Head of Technological Education Administration.[1] He is one of the founders of the Druze School of Sciences in Yarka.[2][3] BiographyFares was born in 1960 in the village of Hurfeish. He is in charge of Druze and Circassian education in Israel, the Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education.[2] Mohana Fares holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in education systems management from the University of Haifa. He is a graduate of the 10th cohort of the Mandel Institute for Leadership and the first cohort of the Advaot program of the Maoz Organization in 2017. In 1993, he established an elementary-community school in Hurfeish, his home village, which was an innovation in the area. As the principal of this school, he received the President's Education Award in 1997, and together with the entire school, won the General Tamari Award for Excellence in Education in 1998. In 2002, he founded and managed the Druze School of Sciences in Yarka, the Association for the School of Sciences. In 2003, after completing his studies at the Mandel Institute for Leadership, Fares joined the Ministry of Education, where he was a member of the team implementing the Shoshani Report, and later was responsible for teaching hours and teachers' salaries in the Economics and Budgets Administration of the Ministry of Education. Between 2009-2015, Fares was in charge of Druze and Circassian education.[4] In 2014, he was appointed coordinator of the program to promote mathematics and science excellence, and since 2015 he has served as the director of the Senior Division for National Programs.[5] The program to promote mathematics studies for matriculation at the five-unit level, which Fares promotes, significantly increased the rate of exam takers within a few years, and for this he was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people.[2][6] In July 2019, Sheikh Fares was appointed senior advisor to the Minister of Education, Rafi Peretz. From September 2019 to May 2020, Fares also managed the Adult Education Division in the Ministry of Education. In September 2021, Fares was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Education and Head of the Technological Education Administration. In 2024, it was reported that Fares left his position at the Ministry of Education.[7] References
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