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image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3
Emblem adopted 30th October 1958
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The city of Qiryat Motzkin (12 km north of Haifa) uses as flags a blue logo and
inscription of the city name on many different backgrounds. The
one on the city hall is white but in the streets you can see also
yellow, orange and blue.
Dov Gutterman, 15 April and 15 May 1999
Qiryat Motzkin still uses many backgrounds but with the logo
in natural colors on the white and yellow bedsheets. The one of
the city hall was replaced to a yellow one.
Dov Gutterman, 11 July 2001
Qiryat Motzkin is situated in Zevulun Valley (Haifa Bay), west
of the road between Haifa and Acco (just north of Qiryat Haim). It was established in
1934, became a municipality in 1976 and has 40,000 inh. It is
named after Arie Leib Motzkin, a Zionist
leader. In spite of showing a boat on its emblem, Qiryat Motzkin
is not on the coast and it probably represents the Biblical tribe of Zevulun. The water
tower still exists as does the lamp with nine lights on its top
symbolizing Hannuka.
Previously many different colour backgrounds were spotted, most
of them with only an outlined version of the emblem, but in my
visit on 1 September 2001 all flags on all municipal buildings
had a yellow background, probably adopted as the local colour.
The hoist is on the right (sinister hoist) and the
reverse side is mirrored.
Sources: author's own observation and photos, 1
September 2001; this
webpage.
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
YP 631, 30 October 1958.
Dov Gutterman, 6 September 2001
According to my Biblical Encyclopedia the tribe of Zebulon lived after Jacob's
blessing "on the beach of the Great Sea"
(Genesis 49:13) and had easy access to the Mediterranean ports.
Although the Zebulonites were cut off from the sea by the Aser
tribe and from the lake of Galilee by the tribes of Naphtali and
Issaschar, the Zebulonites could easily reach rich market towns
like Sidon. The ages-old international trade route, the 'Road of
the Sea', lay across the Zebulon territory.
Jarig Bakker, 6 September 2001
All flags are now only with yellow background. I don't know if
there is any connection with this being the color of the mayor's
list (Motzkin Neto) in the last local elections...or the other
way around. However, I can determine that dark shade of yellow
(gold) is the municipal colour, loosing the previous multi-color
past. The emblem is in natural colors.
Dov Gutterman, 7 May 2003
According to the municipal
website, the emblem was designed by Avrahan Nisati, a local
art teacher, and was adopted on council meeting of 16 June 1946.
Dov Gutterman, 3 May 2005
![[Municipality of Qiryat Motzkin (Israel)]](../images/i/il-qimot1.gif)
image by Dov Gutterman
