Gavriel Salomon

Gavriel Salomon was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv

Gavriel Salomon was born in Tel Aviv in 1938 to a family from Germany. He went to the A.D. Gordon elementary school and finished Ironi Dalet high school in Tel Aviv. In 1959 and 1960 he set up and ran a youth center and an evening school for working youth in Ma'alot.

He began studying at the Hebrew University in 1960 and completed a master's degree in education in 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he earned a doctorate in educational psychology and communication at Stanford University.

In the Yom Kippur War he served as a psychologist on the southern front. In 1974 and 1975 he developed the army's non-clinical psychological service at division level, as a major.

He taught at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona. In 1992 he became a full professor at the University of Haifa, where he was dean of the Faculty of Education and founded a center for peace education in 1999. His research covered the symbolic language of media, computers and children, and peace education.

He retired as professor emeritus in 2007. He was married 3 times and had 2 daughters. He died on January 4, 2016, and was buried in Kiryat Tivon.