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![[Municipality of Ashdod (Israel)]](../images/i/il-asdod.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3    Emblem adopted 16th January 1969 |
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Ashdod is situated on the sea shore, 27 km south to Tel Aviv
and is the main port of the area. Its name taken from the Bible
(Joshua 15,20-47). Founded in 1956 and got a big boost when the
port was built. Pop, 150,000. The unofficial municipal flag is
blue with a white emblem. The municipal emblem was published in
the official gazette (Rashumot, Yalkut ha-Pirsumim), YP
1499, 16 January 1969, to replace that of the former Local
Council which had been published in YP 1001, 28 March 1963.
Sources: author's own observation, 29 September 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 12 October 2001
The municipal
website elaborate about its emblem:
"Meaning of the emblem: the emblem represent ,in short
lines, the ancient and renewed Ashdod.
The Lion head represent Juda tribe, in whose part was the area
where Ashdod is situated.
The line that go on from the lion head representAncient ship fron
the biblical era.
The Anchor represent the new port
The aggression of the lion represent dynamism - the force which
build and create Ashdod after the establishment of the state of
Israel as well of the conquest of the sea for the benefit of the
society.
The emblem was designed by the artist Yitzhak Bakhar"
The emblem appear on a stamp issued on 24 March 1965 (when Ashdod
was still a local council) - see <www.israelphilately.org.il>
.
Dov Gutterman, 9 April 2005
![[Municipality of Ashdod (Israel)]](../images/i/il)asdod.gif)
image from municipal
website
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