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Full name in 2003 elections: BALAD - Brit Leumit Demokretit
(Democratic National Joint).
Letter: Dalet.
Flag/logo: logo- Arabic name in orange on white
Remarks: Led by K.M Azmy Bshara whose candidancy disqualified by
the central elections committee but was approved by the Supreme
court.
Dov Gutterman, 17 and 28 January 2003
The image is based on photo
from <www.arabs48.com>.
It is the new flag of BALAD Party in the State of Israel.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 23 October 2005
BALAD - Brit Le'unit Democratit (National Democratic Alliance
- also to match the Arabic word for country/land) and in Arabic
(as the inscription on the flag state) Al-Tajmua Al-Watani
Al-Demokrati, is a Arabic-Israeli political party which was
established in 1996 and have 3 Knesset members. The party
manifest is based of the idea of Israel as the state of all its
citizens, Jews and Arabs and fight for equal rights for the Arab
citizens while preserving their Palestinian heritage and links.
Sources: <www.ynet.co.il>,
<www.knesset.gov.il>.
Dov Gutterman, 23 October 2005
BALAD is
supposed to be the initials of the transliteration of the Arabic
list name into Hebrew (Brit Leumt Democratit - National
Democratic Alliance), however, this transliteration is almost
never used by this list and the list name is really used because
of its meaning in Arabic (= land).
The official name of the list and the party is only in Arabic:
"al-Tajmua al-Watani al-Democrai – BALAD". The
list used the letters Dalet (Hebrew) and Dal
(Arabic) on the same ballot card.
This Arabic-Israeli party was founded in 1995. It is led by Azmi
Beshara and its main goal is "making Israel the state of all
its citizens" and "getting full civilrights for Israel
Arabs"
The party uses its logo which incorporates the party name with
the Arabic word al-Tajmua more prominent then others. The
Flag is the logo in black on orange background [see: variant]. As car-flag, the inscription is shifted
downwards and above it there is the ballot card with the letters
"dalet" and "dal".
It had 3 seats in the 16th Knesset and kept its strength in the
17th. Website at <www.balad.org>.
Dov Gutterman, 26 March and 7 June 2006
The flag above is shown also at a photo here
and also here.
Eugene Ipavec, 7 July 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 26 March 2006
