Unidentified and Other Flags (Israel)

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by Dov Gutterman and Zeljko Heimer

One of the unique discoveries of my 18 September 2001 [municipalies flags'] tour was a flag that was hoisted in Zefat city hall. Beside the municipal flag and the national flag, there was a white flag charged with the national emblem in reversed colours. I never saw such a flag before anywhere. Here is a photograph.

Dov Gutterman, 28 September 2001

I saw the new Israeli banknote of 20 New Sheqalim showing the Israeli flag, but it also shows some (at least two) other flags in the background. This might be flags from the United Nations building in New York, or something of the sort. One seems to be an Argentinian flag, but the image is too bad to identify anything for certain.

Zeljko Heimer, 13 May 1999

Could it be a symbol of Israel being recognized among the independent nations of the world? It would then make perfect sense to use common colourless patterns for the flags in the back, so they would just mean realistic, yet unidentifiable, "other nations". Notice that none of the flags except the Israeli one can be immediately identified for sure. Obviously, this is on purpose.

Pierre Gay, 13 May 1999

The new 20 INS note is dedicated (as was the old one) to Moshe Sharet, the first Foreign Minister and the second Prime Minister of Israel. The note commemorates the event that took place on May 11th 1949 when Israel was accepted as UN member and Mr. Sharet was honoured by raising the Israeli flag. Since the flag order at the UN follows the alphabetical order, in the original picture you can see the flags of Iceland and India. I think that in designing the new bill, the designers prefered not to show actual flags and therefore the bill includes some symbolic, imaginary flags.

Dov Gutterman, 13 May 1999

I have access to some parts of the Jewish Encyclopaedia and other Israeli documentation and there is several vex information:

• In the word Molcho, Salomon, show the image of the banner that carried Salomon Molcho on his mission to Emperor Charles V at Regensburg in 1532 (Praga, State Jewish Museum).
• In the word Flag is a description of the tribes flags and a banner of the Prague Jewish Community presented by its rabbi Mordecai Meisel 1592 (same Museum).
• In the burial of Herzl 1949, the coffin was covered by a white fabric with blue (?) hebrew incription, and also with a unknow flag, probably blue with a circle of seven six pointed (white or golden) stars.
• More photos: a Jewish sailor raising the flag on a Jewish ship: the flag is probably white with two opposed triangles (blue) that form the David star, and within a sign similar to the letter 'O'.
• Also a drawing of a banner of Jewish Battalions in Palestina: like the current national flag but stylized star and black inscriptions: near hoist Jewish Battalions and below in Palestine; at fly I assume that the same inscription but with hebrew characters.
• Other flag show in the word Ha-shomer Ha-za'ir: The Ha-Shomer white standart with small Union Flag in the upper fly part, and hebrew inscription (By blood and fire Judea fell; by blood and fire Judea shall rise).
• At end, in photo of the official opening of Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations by President Shazar, show the flags of 12 tribes (only 10 visible in the b/w photo).

Jaume Ollé, 31 May 1998

Is it true that the Falacha community use a blue flag with inscriptions or emblem?

Jaume Ollé, 22 February 1999

I guess you mean the Ethiopian Jews who insist that they be not called Falaches, since the Falaches (really Falach-Mura) are those who converted to Christianity and are no longer part of the Ethiopian Jews community. I don't know about any flag of them. There is no official or known flag of the community.

Dov Gutterman, 27 February 1999