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![[Municipality of Petakh Tiqva (Israel)]](../images/i/il-pttqv.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3     Coat-of-arms adopted 13th November 1958 |
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Petah Tikva (meaning opening / gate of hope, taken
from Hoshea 2, 17). Located in the south Sharon area, 12 km east
of Tel Aviv, it holds the title Em
HaMoshavot (Mother of the Colonies), being the first
settlement of the new era, in 1878. Now with about 200,000 inh.
Its unofficial flag is the municipal emblem on blue. The emblem
is shaped as an stylized Magen David, contains a citrus
tree and a plough as symbols to its agricultural past. The
municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
YP 633, 13 November 1958.
I received an eyewitness report about a flag in the opposite
colours (light blue flag and blue emblem), but those quoted above
are the colours recieved from the municipality.
Sources: letter dated 2 September 2001, desk flag.
Dov Gutterman, 10 September 2001
In 1878, a group of Jewish youngsters from Jerusalem decided
to found an agriculture settlement on the lands that they bought
in the village of Melabes. It is costumery to see it as
the first colony in the new era (even thou that Rosh Pina (then
as Gai Oni) claim this title too as founded three weeks
before.....)
The Colony was abandoned in 1881 but the founders return with new
group of settlers in 1884-5. Municipality since 1937.
The story of the emblem of Petah Tikva start in 1908 as one of
the settlers Yitzhak David Goldenhirsch, agreed to open a branch
of the Austrian Post in the colony, but under a condition that
Petah Tikva will be permitted to issue its own stamp. After
getting the approval, Goldenhirsch contact an unknown artist who
designed a stamp that symbolize the colony: plough, orange tree
and fields. This 14 Fara's (Ottoman currency) stamp,
also known as the first Hebrew stamp, is the basis for Petah
Tikva emblem.
The official
website describe the emblem as follows:
- The plough immortalizes the first plowing as a symbol to the
fact that with founding Petah Tikva, the agriculture work was
renewed.
In Hanukah 5638, the first furrow was sliced by the founders of
Petah Tikva in their land, and this action initiated a new era in
the Jewish settlement in Israel-land.
- Green fields - Symbol of drying of the Yarkon swamps and
turning them into green fields.
- Orange tree - Since the first tree was planted by Rabbi Fromkin
in Lakhman estate, this important branch was developed and Petah
Tikva became the biggest and the most important colony in Citrus
growing. The conquering of the "Hebrew Work" by the
workers of the second aliyah [immigration to Israel],
was in Petah Tikva's plantations. Here groups of fruit-picking
and packing workers were arranged and advanced techniques were
developed. Pardes (citrus plant) organization which
united most of the citrus growers in the country was founded in
Petah Tikva
Unfortunately there is no good photo of the blue flag and it
can be seen partially in a photo
of the city hall.
Emblem appeared on a stamp
issued on 2 February 1966.
Dov Gutterman, 2 May 2005
pttqv.gif)
image resized from wikipedia
The inscription below is "He who works his land will have
abundant food" (Proverbs 12,11)
Dov Gutterman, 12 April 2010
