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Ma'ale Ephrayim (Israel, Judea and Samaria)

Mo'atza Mekomit Ma'ale Ephrayim

image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3

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Coat of Arms

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Description

Local Council Ma'ale Ephrayim (meaning Ephraim's ascent, named after the biblical tribe) is situated on Cross-Samaria road, on the western slopes of Samaria Mounts, 200 m ASL and 490 m above the Jordan valley. Est. 1978, 1750 inh.
Mr. Dan Vardi, local council computerizing and public relations co-ordinator, wrote me:

The Local Council Ma'ale Ephrayim has a flag representing the Local Council emblem on white. There are some variations to the emblem (green colour and colour changing – positive and negative) – but since the founding of the settlements and its proclamation as local authority, this is the emblem and flag of our settlement.

Sources: author's own observation, 29 September 2001; council website [retrieved]
Dov Gutterman, 11 October 2001

The emblem of Ma'ale Ephraim has not been formally adopted. Israeli municipalities in areas occupied since 1967 cannot register their emblems*. Many Israeli laws are in force in those municipalities when adopted there by the military commander, but the Symbols/Emblems Protection Act of 1974 is not one of them.
Dov Gutterman, 19 January 2003
* See remarks

Ma'ale Ephraim was established in 1978 as the urban center for all the settlements of the Jordan Valley. Local Council since 11 March 1981.
Source: www.m-efraim.org.il [retrieved]
Dov Gutterman, 27 April 2005

Variants

image by Dov Gutterman

Coat of Arms

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