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![[Municipality of Nazareth, Arabic and English inscription (Israel)]](../images/i/il-nzrt1.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3    Emblem adopted 31st May 1962 |
![[Municipality of Nazareth, Arabic and Hebrew inscription (Israel)]](../images/i/il-nzrt2.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3 Emblem adopted 31st May 1962 |
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Nazareth is situated in the centre of the Lower Galilee area.
This world-famous place (...) has 60,000 inh. almost all of them
Arabs. The municipal emblem was adopted in the Council meeting of
21 November 1955 and published in the official gazzette (Rashumot),
section YP (Yalkut ha-Pirsumim) no. 934 of 31 May 1962.
It shows the famous spring which is in the centre of this city.
The inscription on the municipal flag is either in Arabic and
Hebrew or Arabic and English. Information provided thanks to Mr.
Abdallah Jubran, General Manager of the municipality.
Sources: letter of 28 August 2001; desk flag photograph;
this municipal website
and this other municipal
website.
Dov Gutterman, 8 September 2001
Nazareth was the home town of Joseph and Mary and the town
where Jesus grew up, but he was born in Bethlehem. The main
shrine in Nazareth commemorates the annunciation by the
archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would bear the Messiah,
described in the Gospel of Luke.
Joseph McMillan, 10 September 2001
Nazareth is another case in which the official transliteration
kept the worldwide known name and not the Hebrew or Arabic names.
Visited it plenty times but never saw a municipal flag. It is the
biggest non-Jewish city in Israel (62,300 inh. 67% Moslems, 33%
Christians).
The name is probably based on the verb Natzar (Guard).
Nazareth changed its character during the ages: from a Jewish
small town that was Ruined by the Byzantine it was turn into a
Christian village which in his turn was ruined in the 13th
century and was turned into Moslem village.
Under the Druze ruler Pakher Ed-Din it was turned again to be
under Christian domination which gave it a boost in the 19th
century and following it, Nazareth became the capital of the
Galilee District of the British Mandate in 1930.
The Independence war of 1948 saw many Moslem refugees from nearby
villages arriving to the town and it started to lose its
Christian domination and since the 1980' there is a Moslem
majority in the city. which brought to some inter-religious
tension.
The most important site is the Church of the Annunciation. Photo
of the church at <www.kineret-tours.co.il>.
Sources: <www.nazareth.muni.il>
<www.mapa.co.il>
The emblem appear on stamp
issued on 2 February 1966 and show the Fountain of the Virgin (Ma'ayan
Miriam, Ein Sitna Mariam) situated in the heart of
the city and previously the main source of water to the city. Old
photo of the fountain at <www.ushistoricalarchive.com>
and current one at wikipedia.
Dov Gutterman, 29 April 2005
