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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>
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>
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>
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>.
Dov Gutterman, 30 April 2005
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