Qiryat Bialik (Israel)

Iriyat Qiryat Bialik, Municipality of Qiryat Bialik

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• Flag of 1998
• Flag until 1998
• Variants
• Coat of Arms

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• HaQrayot
• Haifa Subdistrict
• Haifa District
• Haifa Region Fire Department
• Subnational Flags (Israel)
• Israel

Flag of 1998

image by Ivan Sarajcic | 2:3 Emblem adopted 4th August 1998

The city's semi-official flag is a blue-white-purple emblem in the shape of a house which includes the Hebrew initials of the city name on a white bedsheet. A motion to change the emblem is now under discussion at the city council. The motion gained a strong support and few suggestions have already been made.
Qiryat Bialik (a.k.a. Kiryat Bialik) is a municipality in the Zevulun Valley (Emeq Zevulun) on the side of the road between Haifa and Acre, 12 km North of Haifa. It was founded in 1934 and named after the Israeli national poet H.N. Bialik [town sign, 1937 ^source]. It received the legal status of city in 1976. Population 35'000.
Dov Gutterman and Jarig Bakker, 18 May 1999

The flag is 2:3. The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), 'Publications Gazette' section (Yalkut HaPirsumim), YP 4668, 4 August 1998.
Dov Gutterman, 24 May 1999/4 September 2001

Flag until 1998

image both by Dov Gutterman | 2:3

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I stumbled on an old flag of Qiriat Bialik. I do not know what the original background was – maybe light blue, maybe white – it now looks like something grey ... I drew the two possible versions.
Dov Gutterman, 16 October 2001

Variants

image by Ivan Sarajcic | 2:3

Passing through Qiryat Bialik's local tennis courts I came across an orange variant of the municipal flag. This is the only place that I saw it (usually the white variant is used) so either it is an old one or a special order for the tennis centre.
Dov Gutterman, 17 December 2001

image by Ivan Sarajcic | 2:3

Municipality of Qiryat Bialik starts to use also a new variant side by side with the common white one. The new one is green.
Dov Gutterman, 7 April 2004

Coat of Arms (since 2016)

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From Hebrew Wikipedia:
It consists of a shield with a blue frame and a light blue field featuring an illustration of a book; on the right-hand side are musical notes, and on the left-hand side is the old town's coat of arms, a design of the letters "K" (qof) and "B" (bet) – the initials of the town's name – in the shape of a house. The musical notes symbolise Kiryat Bialik's aspiration to be "the capital of Israeli literature and poetry" and the fact that it is named after Israel's national poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik. At the bottom of the emblem is a parchment bearing the city's name. [...] "As a modern, revitalising city, which in the coming years will have a population of around 100'000, we have decided to update the old city emblem for the present day. At the same time, in the new emblem we have taken care to give a place of honour to the previous emblem, which was shaped like a house, as one of our aims was to emphasise the fact that the city has made education and culture its guiding principles." (Mayor Eli Dokorsky)
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Former Version (1935–2016)

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From Hebrew Wikipedia:
The town's first coat of arms was adopted in 1935, shortly after its foundation, and was used for the first 81 years of its existence. In 2016, a competition was held to design a new coat of arms for the town; 24 designs were submitted, from which Orgad Amar's proposal was selected.
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