Dr. Janan Faraj Falah is a senior lecturer of Druze descent at the Arab Academic College of Education in Haifa and a researcher at the University of Haifa. Dr. Faraj Falah serves as the Chairperson of the Academic Committee of the Galilee College, the Ghetto Fighters' House, (Beit Lohamei HaGetaot) and of the International Academic Center for Conservation in Akko, on behalf of Partnership 2000. In addition, she’s the consultant for Akko’s mayor on the subject of women’s status and an activist at the Golda Meir Center in Haifa, which operates on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the activities of women from third world countries. Furthermore, Dr. Faraj Falah is the author of the book “The Druze Woman”, which discusses the status of the Druze woman in the community and in the context of religion and of the Druze law, in general and particularly in Israel. 

In line with her personal motto, by which if you believe in something, you must create circles of people and link them together until your goal is attained, in 2003 she founded and managed the Women’s Vision of Akko Foundation. The Foundation brings both Jewish and Arab women together to work towards promoting the status of women in Akko and in the northern region of Israel. The motto of the Foundation is “women bring life into the world” and in practical terms: enhancing the quality of life, providing proper education, empowering women’s leadership and encouraging all women everywhere. The Foundation further works to bring the two nations closer together. It recently led a project that is first of its kind in Israel, providing support to Arab and Jewish patients of diabetes.  

Her belief that women have the power to lead transformations and to change the fate of mankind had led Dr. Faraj Falah to establish the Women’s House of Peace in Akko which serves as a center for culture, research and art, seeking to promote the activities of women in the northern region of the country.