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Alfe Menashe (Israel, Judea and Samaria)

Mo'atza Mekomit Alfe Menashe, Local Council Alfe Menashe

[Local Council of Alfei Menashe (Israel)]

image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3

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Coat of Arms

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Description

The Local Council Alfe Menashe (meaning the thousands of Manasse, from Deuteronomy 33:17) is situated on a hill in Samaria, 7 km east of Kefar Saba. Est. 1983, pop. 4600.
The unofficial flag is blue with the emblem.
Sources: letter from the Local Council, desk flag
Dov Gutterman, 13 September 2001

The emblem of Alfei Menashe 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

Alfe Menashe is a Local Council since 1986. Pop 5300 (2003). At the municipal website [http://muni.tik-tak.co.il, not archived] there are photos in which the flag is seen. It is a blue flag charged with the municipal emblem in white.
Dov Gutterman, 8 April 2005/18 June 2007

Coat of Arms

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Previous Version

(source: municipal website, 2006)

From the former municipal website (in Hebrew):

The settlement's emblem was chosen in a competition, which was decided upon in 1985. At that time, Alfei Menashe was still part of the Shomron Regional Council. The settlement committee decided on 31 March 1985 to hold an exhibition of emblems in the settlement's administrative building in order to select a suitable emblem. [...]
By a majority vote, the proposal by a young graphic designer, Aryeh Vannuno, was selected. He designed the settlement's emblem, which consists of the settlement's name integrated into its geographical and topographical structure, a terraced landscape on the hills of western Samaria, a large sun symbolising the settlement's eastern location, the chimneys of Hadera – visible on a clear day from the settlement's viewing point – and the minarets of neighbouring Arab villages, expressing the aspiration for peaceful coexistence with the surrounding community.
(Translated with DeepL.com)