Flag of Israel

National ease up

IsraelNameFlag of ZionUseNational flagProportion8:11Adopted1897 ; 124 years ago ( )

(by the Zionist movement)
28 October 1948 ; 73 years ago ( ) (State of Israel)DesignA blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white field.
variant iris of IsraelUseCivil ensignProportion2:3Adopted1948 ; 73 years ago ( )DesignNavy blue flag with a white vertically elongated oval set near the hoist containing a vertically elongated blue Star of David.
form flag of IsraelUseNaval ensignProportion2:3Adopted1948 ; 73 years ago ( )DesignNavy blue flag with a white triangle at hoist and blue Star of David in it.
variant flag of IsraelUseIsraeli Air Force flagProportion2:3DesignLight blue flag with thin white stripes with dark blue borders near the top and bottom, displaying an air force roundel in the center.

Technical drawing of the flag – note that the length of the triangles in the Hexagram is not defined by law, only the thickness of its stripe. This drawing assumes a diameter of 69, as in the most common usage. If the diameter is assumed to be 66 units, however, the Hexagram can be constructed off an isometric grid. The flag of Israel ( Hebrew : דגל ישראל‎ Degel Yisra’el ; Arabic : علم إسرائيل‎ ʿAlam Israʼīl ) was adopted on 28 October 1948, five months after the administration of the State of Israel. It depicts a blue hexagram on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes. The israeli sag legislation states that the official measurements are 160 × 220 centimeter. therefore, the official proportions are 8:11. Variants can be found at a wide compass of proportions, with 2:3 being coarse. The blue color is described as “ dark azure ”, [ 1 ] and varies from pin to flag, ranging from a hue of pure amobarbital sodium, sometimes shaded about angstrom iniquity as dark blue bluing, to hues about 75 % toward pure cyan and shades vitamin a light as very light gloomy. [ 2 ] An early translation of the ease up was displayed in 1885 at a emanation marking the third anniversary of Rishon LeZion. A like version was designed for the Zionist Movement in 1891. The basic plan recalls the Tallit ( טַלִּית ), the Jewish prayer shawl, which is blank with black or amobarbital sodium stripes. The symbol in the center represents the Star of David ( Magen David, מָגֵן דָּוִד ), a jewish symbol dating from late chivalric Prague, which was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897. [ 1 ]

lineage of the flag

The amobarbital sodium stripes are intended to symbolize the stripes on a tallit, the traditional Jewish prayer shawl. The star of David is a wide acknowledged symbol of the jewish people and of Judaism. In Judaism, the color blue symbolises God ‘s glory, purity and gevurah ( God ‘s severity ) ( See : Blue in Judaism ). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The White field represents Chesed ( Divine Benevolence ) [ 5 ] The Israelites used a blue coloured dye called tekhelet ; this dye may have been made from the marine snail Murex trunculus. [ 6 ] This dye was very important in both jewish and non-Jewish cultures of this time, and was used by royalty and the upper class in dyeing their invest, sheets, curtains, etc. ( The dye from a related escargot can be processed to form Tyrian purple called argaman. ) In the Bible, the Israelites are commanded to have one of the threads of their tassels ( tzitzit ) dyed with tekhelet ; “ so that they may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them ( Num 15:39 ). ” Tekhelet corresponds to the color of the divine revelation ( Midrash Numbers Rabbah xv. ). sometime near the end of the Talmudic era ( 500–600 CE ) the diligence that produced this dye collapsed. It became more rare ; over fourth dimension, the Jewish community lost the custom of which species of mollusk produced this dye. Since Jews were then unable to fulfil this commandment, they have since left their tzitzit ( tallit strings ) white. however, in memorial of the commandment to use the tekhelet dye, it became common for Jews to have amobarbital sodium or purple stripes woven into the fabric of their tallit. [ 7 ] The mind that the blue and white colours were the national coloring material of the jewish people was voiced early on by Ludwig August von Frankl ( 1810–94 ), an austrian jewish poet. In his poem, “ Judah ‘s Colours ”, he writes :

Anlegt emergency room, wenn ihn Andacht füllt
Die Farben seines Landes ;
Da steht erbium beim Gebet verhüllt,
Weiß schimmernden Gewandes.

Den Rand des weißen Mantels breit
Durchziehen blaue Streifen,
Sowie des Hohenpriesters Kleid
Die blauen Fädenschleifen.

Die Farben sind ‘s des theuren Lands,
Weißblau sind Juda ‘s Grenzen :
Weiß ist five hundred priesterliche Glanz,
Und blau des Himmels Glänzen. [ 8 ]
He puts on, when entreaty fills him,
The colors of his area.
There stands he, wrapped in entreaty,
In a twinkle clothe of white.

The hem of the blank robe
Are crowned with broad stripes of blue ;
Like the High Priest ‘s clothe,
The blue bands.

These are the colours of the beloved nation :
Blue and white are Judah ‘s borders ;
White is the priestly radiance,
And blue, the glitter of the celestial sphere .
In 1885, the agrarian village of Rishon LeZion used a blue and white flag incorporating a blue Star of David, designed by Israel Belkind and Fanny Abramovitch, in a progress marking its third anniversary. [ 9 ] In 1891, Michael Halperin, one of the founders of the agrarian village Nachalat Reuven flew a alike bluing and white masthead with a gloomy hexagram and the text “ נס ציונה ” ( Nes Ziona, “ a banner for zion ” : a reference to Jeremiah 4:6, late adopted as the modern mention of the city ). A blue and white flag, with a leading of David and the Hebrew bible “ Maccabee “, was used in 1891 by the Bnai Zion Educational Society. Jacob Baruch Askowith ( 1844–1908 ) and his son Charles Askowith designed the “ ease up of Judah, ” which was displayed on 24 July 1891, at the dedication of Zion Hall of the B’nai Zion Educational Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Based on the traditional tallit, or jewish entreaty shawl, that flag was white with narrow blue sky stripes near the edges and bear in the focus on the ancient six-pointed Shield of David with the word “ Maccabee ” painted in blue Hebrew letters. [ 10 ]
Herzl ‘s propose ease up, as sketched in his diaries. Although he drew a star topology of David, he did not describe it as such. In Theodor Herzl ‘s 1896 Der Judenstaat, he stated : “ We have no sag, and we need one. If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads. I would suggest a white flag, with seven golden stars. The white battlefield symbolizes our arrant fresh life ; the stars are the seven gold hours of our working-day. For we shall march into the promise Land carrying the badge of honor. ” [ 11 ] Aware that the nascent Zionist movement had no official pin, David Wolffsohn ( 1856–1914 ), a outstanding Zionist, felt that the design proposed by Herzl was not gaining significant support. Herzl ‘s original proposal however was for a pin completely barren of any traditional jewish symbolism : seven gold stars was representing the 7-hour workday of the enlighten state-to-be, which would have advanced socialistic legislations. [ 12 ] In preparing for the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, Wolffsohn wrote : “ What masthead would we hang in the Congress Hall ? then an theme struck me. We have a flag—and it is blue and white. The talith ( prayer shawl ) with which we wrap ourselves when we pray : that is our symbol. Let us take this Talith from its udder and unfurl it before the eyes of Israel and the eyes of all nations. So I ordered a blue and white ease up with the Shield of David painted upon it. That is how the national flag, that flew over Congress Hall, came into being. ” Morris Harris, a extremity of New York Hovevei Zion, used his awning workshop to design a desirable banner and decorations for the reception, and his mother Lena Harris sewed the iris. The iris was made with two blue stripes and a large blue Star of David in the center, the colours blasphemous and white choose from the design of the tallit . Released inmates of Buchenwald assiduity camp flying a home-made flag on their way to Palestine The pin was ten feet by six feet—in the same proportions as the flag of the United States —and became known as the Flag of Zion. It was accepted as the official zionist flag at the Second Zionist Congress held in Switzerland in 1898 [ 13 ] and was flown with those of early nationalities at the World ‘s Fair hosting the 1904 Summer Olympics from one of the buildings at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition where large zionist meetings were taking place. [ 14 ] The racial Nuremberg Laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935 referenced the Zionist masthead and stated that the Jews were forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the german national colours but were permitted to display the “ jewish colors. ” [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In May 1948, the Provisional State Council asked the Israeli public to submit proposals for a masthead and they received 164 entries. initially the council had wished to abandon the traditional design of the Zionist flag and create something wholly different in orderliness to prevent Jews around the worldly concern being charged with double loyalty when displaying the Zionist flag which could create the depression they are flying the flag of a alien area. [ 17 ] On October 14, 1948 after zionist representatives from around the earth allayed the concerns of their israeli colleagues, the iris of the Zionist Organisation was adopted as the official flag of the State of Israel. [ 18 ]

Colours

Colours scheme

Blue

White

Pantone
286 C
White
RGB
0/56/184
255/255/255
Hexadecimal
#0038b8
#FFFFFF
CMYK
100/70/0/28
0/0/0/0

interpretation of colours

Scheme

Textile color

White

Chesed (Divine Benevolence)[5]
Blue

It symbolizes God’s Glory, purity and Gevurah (God’s severity)[3][4]

criticism

israeli Arab criticism has been raised by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel which claims that Israel ‘s national symbols, including its flag, constitute an official bias towards the Jewish majority which reinforces the inequality between Arabs and Jews in Israel. [ 19 ] however, many early nations have scrupulously single symbols on their flags as well. For exemplar, Muslim symbols are on the flags of Algeria, Turkey, and Pakistan among others, while christian symbols are on the flags of the Nordic countries, Greece, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. [ 20 ] Based on the boundaries of the predict Land given in the Book of Genesis, [ 21 ] Palestinians including Yasser Arafat and Hamas have claimed that the two blasphemous stripes on the israeli flag represent the Nile and Euphrates rivers and allege that Israel desires to finally seize all the land in between. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Hamas Covenant states “ After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates, ” and in 2006, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar issued a demand for Israel to change its flag, citing the “ Nile to Euphrates ” offspring. [ 26 ] Responding to these claims, arabian writer Saqr Abu Fakhr wrote that the “ Nile to Euphrates ” claim is a popular misconception about Jews which, despite being baseless and having abundant testify refuting them, continues to circulate in the arab global. [ 27 ]
criticism from strictly Orthodox Jews stems back to their opposition of early on zionism when some went arsenic far as banning the headliner of David, originally a religious symbol, which had become “ foul ” after being adopted by the World Zionist Organisation. [ 28 ] In a similar vein, contemporaneous leaders such as Rabbi Moses Feinstein called the Israeli flag “ a foolish and meaningless object ” discouraging its display in synagogues, [ 29 ] while the Chazon Ish wrote that praying in a synagogue decorated with an israeli iris should be avoided flush if there was no other synagogue in the area. [ 30 ] The former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, besides forbade the fast-flying of the israeli flag in synagogues, calling it “ a admonisher of the acts of the evil-doers ” [ 31 ] and Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum referred to the flag as the “ pin of unorthodoxy ” and viewed it as an object of idol worship. [ 32 ] Despite the legal requirement ( since 1997 ) for all government-funded schools to fly the israeli masthead, [ 33 ] Haredi Jews by and large refrain from displaying the iris at all, [ 34 ] although in a rare symbolic gesture in gratitude to submit fund, the Ponevezh Yeshiva raise the flag once a year on Independence Day. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Some fringe groups who are theologically opposed to renewed jewish reign in the Holy Land resort to burning it on Independence Day. [ 37 ] In 2019, a kosher sandwich shop in Lakewood caused controversy when it hung an israeli iris on Israel ‘s Independence Day. [ 38 ]

Flag of Israel

lineage of the flag

Colours

interpretation of colours

criticism

luminary flags

See besides

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