Emeq HaYarden (Israel)

Mo'atza Ezorit Emeq HaYarden, Regional Council of Emeq HaYarden/Jordan Valley

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• Local Committee (Former Local Council) of Kinnereth
• Kinnereth Subdistrict
• Northern District
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Description

Regional Council Emeq HaYarden (meaning Jordan Valley) is situated in the valley around the Kinnereth Sea (Sea of Galilee). This area is the cradle of the kibbutz idea with the first kibbutz (Dgania A, 'Mother of the Kibbutzs'). Est. 1949. Pop. 15'000. The unofficial flag is light blue with a blue emblem and no inscription. The emblem showing the Kinnereth sea in a shape of a fort, symbol to the strong resistance of the settlements against the Syrian invation in 1948. The municipal emblem has not been published in the official gazette (Rashumot) and is thus unofficial. Mr. Mordechi Eylon, deputy mayor, wrote me that this was the first Regional Council established in Israel (not counting those that were established already during the Mandate era). He also sent me a desk flag whose background is white.
Sources: letter from Mr. Mordechi Eylon, Regional Council deputy mayor, 1 October 2001; desk flag; author's own observation, 2 October 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 16 October 2001

Emblem approved in YP 5035 of 26 November 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 14 April 2004

In 2003 the former Local Council of Kinneret was dissolved and became a community that is governed by this Regional Council
The Regional Council govern communities as follows:
1) Ashdot Ya'aqov I'hud (Kibbutz) – Est. 1924 – Emblem at www.ashdot.org.il [retrieved]
2) Ashdot Ya'aqov Me'u'had (Kibbutz) – Est. 1924
3) Massada (Kibbutz) – Est. 1937
4) Sha'ar HaGolan (Kibbutz) – Est. 1937 – Emblem at www.shaar-hagolan.co.il [partially retrievable]
4) Tel Katzir (Kibbutz) – Est. 1949
5) Ma'agan (Kibbutz) – Est. 1949
6) Ha'on (Kibbutz) – Est. 1949
7) Afiqim (Kibbutz) – Est. 1932
8) Bet Zera (Kibbutz) – Est. 1927
9) Degania A – The first Kibbutz, Est. 1909 – English homepage at www.degania.org.il [not retrievable]
10) Degania B (Kibbutz) – Est. 1920
11) Alumot (Kibbutz) – First established 1947, disolved and re-established in 1969
12) Kinnereth (The Kibbutz) – Est. 1913
13) Kinnereth (The Colony)
14) Poriyya – Kefar Avoda (Community) – Est. 1950
15) Poriyya Illit (Community) – First established in 1911 as a farm. Re-established 1955.
16) Poriyya – Neve Oved (Community) – Est. 1953
17) Ein Gev (Kibbutz) – Est. 1937
18) Gennossar (Kibbutz) – Est. 1937
19) Ravid (Community) – Est. 1981
20) Hukuk (Kibbutz) – Est. 1945
21) Almagor (Kibbutz) – Est. 1961
Source: www.j-v.org.il [2005 version retrieved]
Dov Gutterman, 30 April 2005

Coat of Arms

image located by Martin Karner
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