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![[Regional Council Upper Galilee]](../images/i/il-rcug.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 29 March 2024
Banner with green logo on white with the Hebrew writing "Regional Council of Upper Galilee"
(Mo'atza Ezorit HaGalil HaElyon, website).
As Dov Gutterman wrote below, they probably still have no flag and just use their logo on a white or other
background.
The photo above was taken on 21 March 2024 at a ceremony to commemorate the battle of Tel Hai in 1920
(Source
with original photo) (Battle of Tel Hai: see Tel-Hai Trustees).
Martin Karner, 29 March 2024
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![[Regional Council Upper Galilee]](../images/i/il-rcgel.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3    Coat-of-arms adopted 30th October 1958 |
Regional Council HaGalil HaElyon (meaning Upper Galilee)
is situated in the north of Israel in area known as the
Galilee finger (because of its geographical shape) near the
border with Lebanon. It was established in
1950 and unites 29 settlements with 15,000 inh. Mr. Gideon
Shelakh of the Regional Council wrote me that the council does
not have an official flag. The council uses its logo on various
backgrounds – red, green, yellow, blue and purple. I chose
red for my image. Source: e-mail from Mr. Gideon Shelakh,
Regional Council, 22 August 2001 and the municipal
website.
Dov Gutterman, 28 August 2001
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
YP 631, 30 October 1958.
Dov Gutterman, 4 September 2001
The main element of the emblem is "The Roaring Lion"
statute, by Avraham Melenkov (1924), which is situated above the
grave of the eight Tel-Hai defenders who were killed in 1920. The
statue is at Kefar-Gil'adi graveyard. See photo at
www.tbh.co.il [retrieved].
Tel-Hai (today a national monument) was established in 1918.
According to a Anglo-French agreement of 1919, the upper Galilee,
including its four Jewish settlements, was under French control.
On 1 March 1920 there was a battle between its defenders and
Anti-French Arab rebels in which eight of its defenders were
killed including their commander Yosef Trumpeldor. According to a
myth, his last words were: "It is good to die for our
land".
Trumpeldor became an heroic figure and you can find a site named
after him in almost every Jewish town in Israel, as well some
settlements and the BETAR youth
movement (See also Betar (Youth organization)). The 11th day of Adar (as it was according to the Hebrew
calendar) is an official national memorial day. The nearby town
of Qiryat Shemona (Town of the Eight)
is named after those defenders.
After the battle (5 October 1920) the Anglo-French agreement was
amended and the Upper Galilee was moved to British control.
Today, the Regional Council govern 29 Kibbutz's. City
hall at the south entrance to Qiryat Shemona.
Source: www.galil-elion.org.il.
Dov Gutterman, 15 April 2005
![[Regional Council of Galil Elyon, Sports Flag (Israel)]](../images/i/il-rcge1.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3 |
At a basketball match today in Hapo'el Galil Elyon B.C's
homecourt in Kibbutz Kefar Bluhm, there were white flags of the
Regional Council with the inscription Mah'leket HaSport
(Sport Department).
Dov Gutterman, 31 October 2001