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Har Adar (Israel, Judea and Samaria)

Mo'atza Mekomit Har Adar, Local Council of Har Adar

[Local Council of Har Adar (Israel, West Bank Occupied Territories)]

image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3

♦ photo (ca. 2007) ^source
♦ photo (ca. 2015) ^source

Description
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Description

Local Council Har Adar (from the previous name Radar Hill), is situated NW of Jerusalem. Est. 1986, Local Council from 1995. Pop. 1500. The unofficial flag is the emblem on white.
Sources: letter from Mrs. Miri Maimonu, Bureau Manager, L.C. Har Adar, 17 September 2001; desk flag; this website [retrieved].
Dov Gutterman, 3 October 2001

The emblem of the Local Council Har Adar 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

The Radar Hill (named after a Radar of the RAF that was there during WWII) was a battlefield during the Independence war. In this settlement there is a memorial to "Har'el Regiment", which is the main element in the emblem. Photo of the monument with the municipal flag at www.har-adar.muni.il [retrieved]. Another photo of the flag here [retrieved].
Dov Gutterman, 15 April 2005

From the former municipal website (in Hebrew):

Name of the settlement
Har Adar was chosen as the name of the settlement following extensive discussions and correspondence with the Government Names Committee. The Names Committee initially decided that the settlement would be called "Kafira", after an archaeological mound situated about half a kilometre west of the settlement, known as "Khirbat al-Kafira", which researchers identify as the site of the city of "Kafira", one of the four Gibeonite cities. The settlers objected to this and proposed alternatives such as "Harel" and "Kfir". Following further discussions, the settlers approached the Names Committee and made a final request that their settlement be called "Har-Adar" from then on. Oded Megiddo, the association's director at the time, wrote the following in his letter requesting approval of the name: "This is a Hebrew name that preserves the phonetic sound of the place's current name [Ha-Radar = the radar]." The Government Names Committee decided to approve the request, to adopt the name "Har-Adar" for the settlement.

History
An archaeological complex dating from the Persian period (attributed to the 5th to 1st centuries BC) has been uncovered in the Mount Adar area, comprising a fortified structure, presumably a fortress, which stood along the northern border of Judea.
Radar Hill was captured during the First World War (1917) by the British General Allenby on his way to capture Jerusalem. During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force established a radar station on the hill to detect German and Italian enemy aircraft, hence the name "Radar Hill".
On the eve of the War of Independence, the British Army was stationed here at a post which controlled the area of Kiryat Anavim, Ma'ale HaHamisha and the Jerusalem Road.
On 10 May 1948, the British evacuated the post and handed it over to the Arab Legion (the Jordanian Army). On 13 May 1948, two days before the British withdrew from Palestine, the outpost was captured by a company from the 4th Battalion of the Palmach's "Harel" Brigade, also known as the 10th Brigade. Six days later, on 19 May 1948, units of the Arab Legion captured the outpost from the regional force (the brigade commander at the time was the late Chief of the General Staff and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The battalion commander was Uri Ben-Ari). Two further attacks by the Harel Brigade in late May and early June 1948 failed, and Radar Hill remained in the hands of the Jordanian army until the Six-Day War.
On 5 June 1967, the hill was captured by the IDF's "Harel" Armoured Brigade, once again under the command of Uri Ben-Ari, who had been commander of the 4th Battalion during the War of Independence.
Today, the hill forms the centre of the settlement of Har Adar. At its summit stands the Harel Memorial, commemorating the fallen soldiers of the Harel Brigade in all of Israel's wars. The site includes a memorial to those who fell in the battles that took place there, as well as a display of tanks and armoured vehicles [photo, photo]. Among others, the site commemorates the names of the brigade commander during the War of Independence, Yitzhak Rabin (later Chief of the General Staff and Prime Minister), and the brigade commander during the Six-Day War, Uri Ben-Ari.
[...]
At the end of 1978, three friends who had served in the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria – Aryeh Meir, Shimon Stein and Micha Blum – met. Inspired by the settlement boom of the time, they decided to establish a settlement that was not affiliated with any political party. [...] In 1986, the settlement was established by the Har Adar Settlement Association. [...]
(Translated with DeepL.com)

Coat of Arms

image from www.har-adar.muni.il

♦ photo

From the former municipal website (in Hebrew):

The Har Adar emblem was originally designed by David Beller, a resident of the settlement. In his design, David incorporated the memorial located on Har Adar Hill [photo ^source]. Next to the memorial, he placed a house that symbolises the settlement.
In 1993, the local council approached another graphic designer to create a new emblem, which is the one in use today. The upper part of the emblem features the outline of the monument, whilst the lower part depicts a yellow ear of wheat. This ear of wheat was taken from the Palmach emblem, which features two ears of wheat and a sword.
(Translated with DeepL.com)