Municipality of Jerusalem (Israel)

Iriyat Yerushalayyim, al-Quds

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by Zeljko Heimer, modified by Santiago Dotor
Coat-of-arms adopted 13th November 1958

• Description
• Vertical variant
• Jerusalem Civil Ensign 1333-1921

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• Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Israeli Municipalities
• Israel

The lion (...) is the symbol of Yehuda (Judah) Tribe.

Dov Gutterman, 18 November 1998

I have lived in Jerusalem, a few blocks away from City Hall, for a number of years. The charge and its inscription are yellow (or gold) and blue (or "indigo"), like the two horizontal stripes, and definitely not black. The inscription is merely the city's name in Hebrew.

The brickwork pattern represents the Kotel or Western Wall (of the Temple Mount). The fructed olive branches are, as in the national emblem and presidential standard, indicative of peace and goodwill. Yellow and white are said to represent the gold and silver vessels used in the Holy Temple of King Solomon on Mount Moriah. The color blue presumably symbolizes the tekhelet, a special dye used for tsitsiyot (fringes or tassels) on the talit (prayer shawl) and beged shel