Emeq Hefer (Israel)

Mo'atza Ezorit Emeq Hefer, Regional Council of Emeq Hefer/Hefet Valley

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image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3 Coat-of-arms adopted 13th November 1958

• Description
• The Emblem

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• Municipal Flags (Israel)
• Sharon Subdistrict (Central District, Israel)
• Israel

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Description

Regional Council Emeq Hefer (pronounced: Emeq Khefer), named after the Biblical land of Hefer (Kings A, 4, 10), is situated in the seashore plain between Hadera and Netanya. No less then 45 settlements are governed by this Regional Council with 27,000 inh. Emeq Hefer was the first Regional Council to be founded (1940).
The unofficial flag above the city hall shows a black municipal emblem on a green field.
Sources: author's own observation, 6 September 2001; this webpage.
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), YP 633, 13 November 1958.
Dov Gutterman, 10 September 2001

First community (Kefar Wittkin) was founded in 1933 and today it govern 27 Moshav's, 9 Kibbutz's, 5 Education institutes, 4 communities and 2 neighborhoods.
Emblem include a fish and orange tree inside of two spikes.
Source: <www.hefer.org.il>.
Dov Gutterman, 1 May 2005

The Emblem

image from wikipedia