Nof HaGalil (Israel)

f.k.a. Nazerat Illit/Nazareth Illit/Upper Nazareth

Last modified: 2025-02-07 by martin karner
Keywords: nof hagalil | nazareth | nazerat illit | upper nazareth | text: hebrew (white) | coat of arms (cogwheel: black) | coat of arms (wall: black) | coat of arms (branches: laurel) |
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image by Daniel Rentería, 2 February 2025

• Description
  • Governmental Flag
• Flag until 2019
• Coat of Arms

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Description

In 2019, the municipality of Nazaret-Illit changed its name to Nof HaGalil meaning "View of the Galilee". The same year, it adopted a new flag and logo. In my visit the year following, I noticed its usage very commonly in the streets. It consists of a purple field with its coat of arms and text reading its new name in Hebrew script. I should note I am unsure of the actual font on the municipal flag. Image can be seen here (picture).

Governmental Flag

image by Daniel Rentería

The government of Nof HaGalil uses a variant of its flag without text, and its coat of arms is placed diagonally to appear upright in photos. Image can be seen here.

Daniel Rentería, 2 February 2025

Flag until 2019

image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3 Coat-of-arms adopted 24th October 1974

Nazerat Illit (pronounced Natzeret/Natzrat Ilit, meaning Upper Nazareth) is situated on the top of a mountain in Lower Galilee, over 500 m above sea level, near the city of Nazareth in the Lower Galilee, 38 km east of the port city of Haifa 30 km west of Tiberias, 110 km from Tel Aviv and 165 km from Jerusalem. Est. 1954 Local Council since 1963 and Municipality since 1974, pop. 50'000. It is the joint capital of the North District.
The unofficial flag shows the municipal emblem on purple, as can be seen behind the Mayor in this photograph [retrieved]. The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), YP 2057, 24 October 1974. It replaced the previous emblem of the Local Council Nazareth Ilit, published YP 1277, 19 May 1966.
Dov Gutterman, 8 September 2001

I guess that the main object at the emblem (and which gave the city flag its color) was supposed to be the local flower Irus Natzerati (Iris bismarckiana) [retrieved], however, this flower is white and the flower in the emblem is Irus HaGilboa (Iris haynei) [retrieved].
Official homepage at www.nazareth-illit.muni.il [retrieved] with many photos of the flag.
Since I had a chance to inspect the flag from close range, the inscription isn't the city name but "Israel" in Hebrew and English.
Dov Gutterman, 29 April 2005

Coat of Arms

image located by Martin Karner
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