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Acre
Annan says:
Annan Fares Falah “I was the graduate
of WePower’s first
Acre senior management
program in which I
Acre-born Annan Fares Falah is acquired the tools,
Israel’s first ever Druze woman methods and
dentist – and a trained civilian know–how while
pilot who also studied law, dealing with issues
and was the first ever woman in the public arena.
Qadi candidate for the Druze The program refined
Sharia Courts. Annan worked a lot of things I knew
as a pediatrician and dentist before, though not in
and in 2010 was nominated depth”.
by the Ministry of Health to
be Dentists’ Supervisor in the Independence Day Ceremony
North of Israel. Annan was, in in 2016. She is a member in
addition, a director at The Second a number of women’s groups
Authority for Television and Radio and organizations, working to
and a member of the Ministry promote the status of women,
of Trade’s Advisory Committee. particularly Druze women, and
She is the only person nominated in organizations which promote
twice as Judge for the Sokolov understanding between Israel’s
Prize for Journalism, and different populations.
served as Director in the Acre
Economic Company. In 2015, she
received her Professorship in
Education. Annan lit the torch at
the National Herzel Mount Israeli
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