Flag Contest 1948: proposals with a single star or 'Magen David' (Israel)

Last modified: 2002-10-19 by santiago dotor
Keywords: disc (orange) | star: 6 points (blue outlined) | star: 6 points (yellow) | canton (star) | star: 6 points (blue) | star: 6 points (red outlined) | disc (white) | stripes: 15 (white-blue) | star of david |
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• Proposal no.49 by Benyamin Bergi
• Proposal no.50 by H. Negbi
• Proposal no.51 by H. Negbi
• Proposal no.55 by Ahron Adlersberg
• Proposal no.56 by Ahron Adlersberg
• Proposal no.71, anonymous
• Proposal no.72 by Gustav Shoken (two proposals)
• Proposal no.73, anonymous

See also:

• Flag Proposals 1948-1949 (Israel)
• Historical Flags (Israel)
• Israel

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

Editor's note: see the discussion on the width of the stripes under Proposal no.54 by Ahron Adlersberg.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

Editor's note: see the discussion on the width of the stripes under Proposal no.54 by Ahron Adlersberg.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

I wonder which flag inspired him. It could be the Greek (the colors and the square canton) or the United States (13 stripes). However the canton is 6.5 stripes high instead of 5 (Greece) or 7 (USA).

Dov Gutterman, 4 March 1999

    
both by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

by Thanh-Tâm Lê
Click here for the original image from the Centre of Educational Technology.

This time 7 blue stripes instead of seven stars. The use of a red Magen David is a little odd since it is and was the symbol of medical units (Magen David Adom) even during the Mandate era.

Dov Gutterman, 5 March 1999

I made the Magen David in a circle, but actually the original picture shows a slightly wider one. Aren't most Magen David stars made of equilateral triangles?

Thanh-Tâm Lê, 5 March 1999