Flag of Israel
The flag of Israel was adopted on October 28, 1948. It depicts a blue Star of David on a white background, between two blue stripes. The shade of the color blue is not specifically mandated, and it varies from flag to flag. Sometimes it is a dark, almost navy blue, other times it is a very light sky blue.
It is modelled after the Jewish prayer shawl known as the Tallit.
It was first introduced by David Walfson in the First Zionist Convention. While this flag emphesises Jewish religious symbols, Binjamin Zeev Hertzel wanted the flag to have more universal symbols: 7 golden stars symbolizing the 7-hour working quota of the enlightened state to be, which would have advanced socialistic legistlations. The flaag itself was invented in Rishon LeZion, although the motif of "the Tallit is the flag of the Jewish people" can be attributed to earlier time and people.
It has recently been suggested that additional symbols should be added to the flag, with which non-jewish citizens of Israel, and the Israeli-Arabs inparticular, would be able to identify.
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