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![[Local Council of Gedera (Israel)]](../images/i/il-lcgdr.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3    Emblem adopted 13th November 1958 |
Note: The emblem should be in full colour, not black and white only
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Local Council Gedera (also known as Gadera) is situated in
Central District, Rehovot Sub District, 10 km south to Rehovot on road 40. Founded in 1884 as
the first settlement of BILU, a diaspora Zionist group, and got
11,000 inh. Its name is taken from the Bible: Divre ha'Yamim
(last book) A' 4,23 and Joshua 15,36. Gedera is Local Council
since 1949.
The flag I spotted was white with the seal on a blue device, with
a Hebrew inscription on the device and an English one below the
emblem. Since I only have a black and white emblem, I used it for
the image, but in the flag it is in natural colours. The
municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
YP 633, 13 November 1958, and is the BILU seal. Sources: author's
own observation, 29 September 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 11 October 2001
Description of the BILU-seal: Mountains of Judah, and beneath
the words of Isaiah 2:3, "O home of Jacob, come ye, and
let us walk in the light of the Lord", and the words of
the Torah (Num 13:30), "We should go up it, and possess
it; for we are well able to overcome it". BILU is the
Hebrew abbreviation of the quoted text of Isaiah, "Beith
Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha".
Source: Israel Guide, Zev Vilnay, 1978
Jarig Bakker, 11 October 2001
The upper inscription is: Committee house of BILU company in
Jerusalem TUBA (initials for: "may it built and established
in short time, amen").
Bigger emblem at </www.zmora.org.il>
and at <www.gedera.net>
. History of BILU emblems at <www.gedera-m.org>
reveals that between 1898-1907 Gedera used its own emblem with
inscription : Community of Gedera Colony in Israel Land as well
inscription in German. Inside the emblem there is a vine.
This emblem was designed by Y. M. Pines to reflect the connection
between the biblical Gderot, the Greek Kadron and the Arabic
Katra. This emblem was probably never used on flag.
Dov Gutterman, 12 April 2005
