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![[Local Council of Mazkeret Batya (Israel)]](../images/i/il-lcmbt.gif) image by Dov Gutterman | 2:3    Emblem adopted 22nd October 1959 |
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Local Council Mazkeret Batya (meaning Batya memorial
after Baron Rothschild's mother) was established in 1882 as Eqron
and got 6500 inh. Situated in the Central District, Rehovot
subdistrict, 5 km SE to Rehovot, 25
km from Tel Aviv and 30 km from Jerusalem. At the city hall I spotted an
orange flag with black emblem (one was also with orange fringes).
The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot),
'Publications Gazette' section (Yalkut HaPirsumim), YP
706, 22 October 1959.
Source: author's own observation, 29 September 2001.
Dov Gutterman, 16 October 2001
The date of the establishment of this colony is undetermined.
Some see it as October 1882 when the settlers signed the
agreements, while others see it as early 1884 when the first four
houses were built. However, the locals and most of the sources
see it as 7 November 1883, the first day of the land processing
in the colony.
Named initially as Eqron after the biblical town by that name
[e.g. 1 Samuel 7:14]
whose name was the origin for the name of the nearby Arab village
of A'qir, but it changed its name in 1887 by decision of Baron
Rothschild who lost his mother short time before his visit in the
colony.
Sources: www.mazkeret-batya.muni.il [retrieved],
www.mazkeret.org [retrieved],
www.daat.ac.il [retrieved].
Dov Gutterman, 24 April 2005
♦ Symbols of the Colony (mazkeret-batya.muni.il, Hebrew | English translation)
♦ History (mazkeret-batya.muni.il, Hebrew | English translation)
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