Druze People (Israel)

Last modified: 2003-04-19 by santiago dotor
Keywords: druze | jebel druze | israel | sultan pasha | unidentified flag | magen david | star: 6 points (outlined) | star (faceted) |
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by David Kendall

• Description
• Municipal Flags:
  • Municipality of Shfar'am (Iriyat Shfar'am)
  • Local Council of Daliat el-Carmel (Mo'atza Mekomit Daliat el-Carmel, Majles Makhaly Daliat el-Carmel)
  • Local Council of Hurafesh (Mo'atza Mekomit Hurafesh, Majles Makhaly Hurafesh)
  • Local Council of Julis (Mo'atza Mekomit Julis, Majles Makhaly Julis)
  • Local Council of Kisra-Sammia'a (Mo'atza Mekomit Kisra-Sammia'a, Majles Makhaly Kisra-Sammia'a)
• Incorrect Reported Flag
• Druze troops in Israel Defence Forces
• Unidentified Flag of Sultan Pasha
• Flag with five-coloured star, probably non-existant

See also:

• Druze People (Syria)
• Druze People (Lebanon)
• Israel

The Druze people are 400,000 living in Syria (mainly in the area of Jabal ad-Duruz or Druze Mountains), Lebanon and Israel. The Druze flag is the same in all of them.

Dov Gutterman, 1 October 1998

by Ivan Sache

In the Flags of Aspirant Peoples chart appears "28. Druzes - Israel". Horizontal green-red-yellow-blue-white with a white solid Magen David shifted to upper fly (centered on red stripe). Since our experts from Israel report something rather different, I assume this flag is a mistake.

Ivan Sache, 13 September 1999

There is no way it can have a light blue stripe unless somebody saw a faded flag. It should be dark blue like in il-druz.gif [image at the top of this page]. As I mentioned already, this is a probably ad-hoc flag, and I never saw one like it.

Dov Gutterman, 14 September 1999

by Jorge Candeias, 10 May 1999

During my surfing in Hebrew sites I found a black and white picture showing the flag of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Druze soldiers in 1948. The picture is in the Druze page at Snunit site which is the Jerusalem University site. The flag has four horizontal stripes and a triangle with a Magen David on it. I saw the real IDF flag and the order of stripes is the same as the regular Druze flag (red-yellow-blue-white with a white Magen David on the green hoist triangle).

Dov Gutterman, 8 September 1998 and 9 May 1999

from Zvi Ruder

I received a fax from Zvi Ruder with a photo of Israeli Druze flag, which I never saw before. I scan the photo which is in poor condition after being processed through fax machine. The Arabic inscription on the flag is Sultan Basha [=Pasha] which is the name of a famous Druze leader.

Dov Gutterman, 13 September 1999

by António Martins

Zvi Ruder sent me some information from a report by Günter Mattern of Switzerland and Jarig Bakker translated it:

Lebanon - Druzes
Sheikh Bahshatti Gheith took his seat of honor in the Majlis, the parliamentary room, flanked by two 5-pointed stars, of which each point had a different color — blue, green, yellow, red, white. The 5 colours symbolize the 5 pillars of Islam. Source: Neue Züricher Zeitung, Nr. 103, 4/5 5 96, p. 78

Dov Gutterman, 13 September 1999