Yessod Hamaa'la, Israel

Yesod HaMa'ala is situated in the centre of Hula Valley in the Upper Galille. It was founded in 1883 and has 1,000 inh. Local Council since 1949. It has no official flag and in case of need it uses a municipal emblem on a monochrome background. Source: local council webpage. The municipal emblem was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), YP 792, 21 September 1960.Dov Gutterman, 12 September 2001. The municipal flag is green emblem on yellow (quite faded). Source: author's own observation, 19 September 2001.Dov Gutterman, 13 October 2001:This small colony* started when 42 families from Mezeritch in Poland decided to buy land in Israel-land. Their messengers bought this remote land in 1883 and the first seven families settled there in spring 1884. Hard work, thefts and Malaria killed many of them, but they refused to leave the site. In 1887 it was put under Baron Rotshield's control, and his decision to make it a center for perfume production almost brought this colony to deadlock. Only the arrival of more efficient farmers save this small colony.
One of those families was the Dobrovin family, converted Christian from Russia, and their estate The Dobrovin Estate serves today as a museum showing the "old days" in the colony.The origin of the name come from the bible