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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
Acreborn Annan Fares Falah is acquired the tools,
Israel’s first ever Druze woman methods and know
dentist – and a trained civilian –how while dealing
pilot who also studied law, with issues in the
and was the first ever woman public arena. The
Qadi candidate for the Druze program refined a
Sharia Courts. Annan worked lot of things I knew
as a pediatrician and dentist before, though not in
and in 2010 was nominated depth”.
as 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 a
addition, a director at The Second number o f w o m e n ’ s g r o u p s
Authority for Television and Radio a n d o r g a n i z a t i o n s, w o r k i n g
and a member of the Ministry t o 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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