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![[Cherkess People (Israel)]](../images/i/il_cherk.gif)
image by Nikolay Khimenkov/Santiago Dotor
♦ photo
During my tour in the Upper Galilee, I passed near the village
of Ri'haniya. Even thou it is not a local authority (it belongs
to Regional Council of Merom HaGalil),
I decided to visit it as I wondered what flag is used in one of
the only two Cherkess villages in Israel (the other is Kfar Kama, a Local Council in Lower
Galilee). In the local school and the local Cherkess Museum there
was the green flag with yellow arrows and stars of Adygeya (Russia). I suspect that this flag
is used as the flag of the Cherkess nation and not only of this
Republic.
Dov Gutterman, 23 September 2001
The Cherkess people immigrated from their land in 1879 after
it was taken over by the Russians.
The Ottomans sent them to settle the
border regions of the empire and around 1880 some of them arrived
to what is nowadays Israel and established two villages [Kefar
Kama and Ri'haniyya]. In 1948 the Cherkess joined the IDF and fought against the Arabs [see also "Sword" Battalion].
Dov Gutterman, 27 March 2003
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