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A one sided plastic flag, with the Hebrew word Yisrael
on the upper stripe and the Hebrew word Hazaka (strong)
on the lower stripe to make the slogan Israel (is) Strong.
I only saw one flag like that, on a car, even though it was not
home-made.
Dov Gutterman, 17 December 2001
![['State of Judea' Movement Flag]](../images/i/il}judea.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, modified by Dov Gutterman
In the Flags of Aspirant
Peoples 1994 chart appears "27. Judea (State
of, 1989) (West Bank, Judea & Samaria) – Israel".
Similar to the national flag, but the Magen
David is replaced by six blue triangles forming a kind of
dislocated Magen David, shifted to the hoist. The upper
right triangle includes a white menorah, the lower left
triangle includes something not identified (it reminds me some
ritual object, but I am not able to say more – a talith maybe?).
There is something written in Hebrew between the hoist and the
lower part of emblem.
Ivan Sache, 13 September 1999
Well, it took me some time to figure it out, but what is
supposed to be written there is Gur arie Yehuda (Juda
[is a] Lion cub).
Dov Gutterman, 14 September 1999
[This flag is] not in use. It was in use just for a very short
period by a very small group of right-wing settlers as a protest
against the government. I do not think that they took it too
seriously (at least no other one did) and it did not impress the
government so this episode was soon to be over. I would not call
them aspirant people.
Dov Gutterman, 14 December 2000
The symbol on the bottom left is a head of a lion, as in the
inscription, which is blue as well. I happen to own this flag.
The State is a project, of sorts, of followers of the
late Rabbi(s) Kahane, whose usual symbol, a fist over a Star of David is illegal in
Israel. However, while the idea of the State, never
officially declared as far as I know, is still mentioned
(ironically by some left-wingers as well), the flag seems to have
fallen into disuse.
Nathan G. Lamm, 4 June 2001
In fact there is a movement (State of Judea Independence
Movement) that still exists that aims to set up a Jewish state in
Judea and Samaria if their homeland is
transferred to the Palestinian Arabs.
Gary Selikow, 8 February 2002
The correct State of Judea flag (as shown above) does exist. I own one, professionally made (My mother actually bought it for me, years ago, mistaking it for an Israeli flag – little did she know that I would know exactly what it was. I think I got Kach and Kahane Chai flags at about the same time). The movement is mostly a Kahanist idea, but they have their own flags that they use, neglecting this one (again, the real one). I have never seen it at Kahanist meetings or rallies, not even in pictures of the Congress of the State of Judea. The idea has also not been mentioned in a while, especially as Kahanists have grudgingly gone along with their (involuntary) removal from politics, now focusing their energies elsewhere. Some left-wing columnists have suggested it, perhaps only half-seriously, but that is all.
Some differences between the above image and the flag I own:
Nathan Lamm, 9 and 12 February 2002
Following Kahana idea of Medinat Yehuda, the state was
declared in 1989 by Michael Ben-Horin who was also nominated as
its president. This idea was never materialized, but it pop up in
few occasions later on, last time in 2004 following PM Sharon
severing plan.
Dov Gutterman, 27 July 2007
![[Mistakenly reported flag, 'State of Judea' Movement(Israel)]](../images/i/il}jude!.gif)
image from this
website, modified by Santiago Dotor
The flag of the State of Judea Independence Movement can be
found at this website.
Gary Selikow, 8 February 2002
The flag on that
website is clearly a clipart image, certainly not based on a
flag and, considering that another one exists, probably never
made.
Nathan Lamm, 9 February 2002
image by Tomislav Todorovic
Since 2019 the Israeli "Black Flag Movement" has sought the removal from
office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
William Garrison, 9 January 2021
Flags derived from Israeli national flag by replacing blue and white colors
with white and black, respectively were used by the participants of the rally in
Tel Aviv on 2019-05-25, which was organized as the protest against the then
government's proposed legislation which would grant Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu immunity from prosecution over corruption charges, as well as
radically limit the powers of the Supreme Court, the latter being considered as
an effort to prevent any similar future prosecutions.
The photos from the
rally can be viewed here:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-tel-aviv-rally-turkeys-erdogan-and-the-handmaids-tale-loom-large/
(image:
https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/05/000_1GX42Z.jpg)
and
here:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-gather-for-mass-rally-to-safeguard-israeli-democracy-from-netanyahu/
(image:
https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/05/F190525TNFF09-640x400.jpg)
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2020
image located by William Garrison
source:
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-benny-gantz-knesset-black-flag.html
Protesters wearing masks wave Israeli and black flags as a sign of protest,
during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
caretaker government, accusing it of undemocratic measures, outside the Knesset
in Jerusalem, March 25, 2020.
William Garrison, 9 January 2021
image located by William Garrison
The second photo shows a different black flag with white lettering in Hebrew.
Anti-Netanyahu protesters at Havatzelet Hasharon Junction, Saturday, December
12, 2020.
source:
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/black-fag-movement-to-gantz-time-has-come-to-replace-netanyahu-651899
William Garrison, 9 January 2021
I am not so certain that this is really a flag – could be just
a demonstration poster. However, note also the pink flags carried by some of the
protesters, seemingly plain, but there's another photo in the same page:
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/black-fag-movement-to-gantz-time-has-come-to-replace-netanyahu-651899,
which reveals a black inscription on yellow background, diagonally oriented (a
label, perhaps) in top fly corner:
https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_Article2016_ControlFaceDetect/467874
More photos of pink flags, also plain:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-anti-netanyahu-protests-resume-as-thousands-take-to-streets-across-israel-1.9277285
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-anti-netanyahu-protesters-mark-six-months-of-weekly-demonstrations-1.9385078
https://www.alamy.com/in-a-futile-attempt-to-stop-the-mounting-protests
https://www.alamy.com/29-sep-2020-anti-corruption-protest
https://www.alamy.com/jerusalem-israel-september-29-a-protester
https://www.alamy.com/29-sep-2020-anti-corruption-protest-against-prime-minister
and of a pink flag with black inscription, possibly the same as the white
inscription on black flag/poster in William's image:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-undeterred-by-stormy-weather-anti-netanyahu-protests-continue-1.9321184
Plain pink flag is currently
presented at the FOTW-ws as an LGBT symbol, with no
verified use in Israel, where it is now clearly used in a different capacity.
Several photos of plain pink flags and one photo of a pink flag/poster
with black inscription, identical typeface as in William's image:
https://fr.timesofisrael.com/18e-semaine-des-rassemblements-anti-netanyahu-dans-tout-le-pays
More photos of pink flags and a pink poster with the said inscription in
black:
https://www.alamy.com/israelis-protest-against-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-alleged-corruption-and-the-economic-hardship-stemming-from-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-crisis-amid-israels-second-nationwide-lockdown-in-tel-aviv-israel-october-8-2020-reutersamir-cohen-image381002242.html
https://www.alamy.com/2102020-tel-aviv-israel-protest-against-prime-minister-netanyahu-and-second-coronavirus-lockdown-early-stages-of-the-protest-in-which-hundreds-were-marching-in-tel-aviv-streets-calling-bibi-netanyahu-to-resign-the-pink-flags-symbolize-the-weakened-populations-grace-empathy-had-become-the-youth-symbol-of-what-they-see-as-the-revolution-image379766007.html
Tomislav Todorovic, 9 January 2021
image located by William Garrison
The third bottom photo shows a black-white Israeli flag instead of the usual
blue-white national flag.
Protesters wave a black flag, an Israeli flag and
an Israeli flag with the colors inverted, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on
March 19, 2020.
source:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/demonstrators-protest-knesset-closure-scuffle-with-police-in-jerusalem/
William Garrison, 9 January 2021
images by Tomislav Todorovic
At
https://www.usnews.com/news/ an image shows an Israeli flag with pink
instead of blue. The caption states, "Members of "The Pink Front," a group of
protesters demanding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down over
corruption allegations, hold white/pink-colored Israeli flags (instead of the
usual white/blue colors) during a weekly anti-Netanyahu demonstration, in
Jerusalem" (October 24, 2020. REUTERS/Corinna Ker).
A pink display that has now become iconic for the protest was the
re-enactment of the Ink Flag hoisting, a major event of Israel's Independence
War, when Israeli soldiers raised a homemade flag after reaching the shores of
the Red Sea.
William Garrison, 22 July 2021
More photos of plain pink flags and Israeli flags with pink instead of blue:
https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rkmreDaeO
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/anti-netanyahu-protest
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/anti-netanyahu-protest
https://www.facebook.com/pg/thepinkflag/photos/?ref=page_internal
The shade of pink seems to vary somewhat, although those variations seem to be
partly caused by the varying conditions under which the photos were taken. Also,
the repainted Israeli flags seem to be more oblong than the actual national
flag.
Tomislav Todorovic, 25 July 2021
In the wake of the current Israel-Hamas war, a picture is seen
featuring the Israeli flag and instead of the Star of David, it features a heart, all in pink. In this
context, it refers to abused Israeli women in Hamas' captivity. [The flag was used as a protest flag on a
demonstration against Prime Minister Netanyahu and far-right members of his coalition on January 6, 2024
(source).
See also Pink Heart Israel Flag (Abused Israeli women)]
Esteban Rivera, 6 January 2024
![[B B Netanyahu]](../images/i/il_netanyahu.jpg)
image located by William Garrison
Flag/banner depicting Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu, showed on a
supporters' rally in Jerusalem on 20 April 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)
Hebrew inscriptions: "Hero of Israel" / "Together with you the whole way"
(source,
picture)
located by William Garrison, 9 March 2023
Marchers wave a flag displaying Benjamin Netanyahu's image in Jerusalem, Israel on April 20, 2022.
"King of Israel" in English. Atop the picture of Netanyahu are the English
letters: "B B" which obviously is a play on his nickname "Bibi" – at least when
pronounced in English. This looks more like a flag than a banner, but I'm not too sure.
William Garrison, 9 March 2023
I think it was 2001 at the ICV in York, England, that I sat in on a session for flagmakers. They were
aghast at the concept of printing images on flags – a flag can't be a flag if it can't be sewn was the
core message. One printer from France was demonstrating gradient fill across a flag from true blue to a
strong green and the howls of protest from other flagmakers could be heard in London, I swear! Of course,
printed flags were on the market long, long before 2001, but the practice was to ensure that a flag could
only be a flag if you could conceive of it being sewn from pieces of fabric. 18th and 19th Century painted
flags were carefully avoided in that discussion!
My point is that 22 years ago, this would have been an advertising banner. Today it might be produced by
the thousands and paraded through the streets by supporters (or burned by opponents!) The boundary between
flags and banners has blurred. I would call this one a promotional flag, serving the purpose to rally
supporters, promote Netanyahu, and simply recognise the cause. Pete Loeser uses the term "vaporware"
for ephemeral items, mostly electronic, but I think this sort of flag probably belongs in that area too.
However, we have seen such flags for US presidential races from two centuries ago, so it probably deserves
a mention on FOTW.
Rob Raeside, 9 March 2023
![[flag BIA]](../images/i/il_bia.jpg)
image located by William Garrison
The black-field flag of the "Brothers in Arms" protest group (comprised of Israeli military
reservists) who are against the court/judicial reforms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
near Tel Aviv, Israel, 9 March 16, 2023. It mimics the national Israeli flag with the top-and-bottom blue
stripes and star, but against a black-field flag (representing mourning or protest?) instead of the normal
white field. The white two-line slogan reads "achim le'neschek" (Hebrew) or "Brothers in Arms".
(source: timesofisrael.com)
William Garrison, 20 March 2023
![[protest flag]](../images/i/il_doind.jpg)
image located by William Garrison
An Israeli flag superimposed with part of the text of the country's Declaration of Independence
(in Hebrew), which is paraded by liberal/progressive Israelis in opposition to the conservative-religious
coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 25 April 2023. The original Israeli
Declaration of Independence day occurred on May 14, 1948, but due to differences between the
Western-oriented Gregorian solar calendar and the Jewish/Hebrew lunisolar calendar, Israeli
Independence Day in 2023 was observed on April 26 (and it varies from year to year).
Israel has neither a constitution nor a "Bill of Rights". As its Declaration of Independence does
contain some secular wording, the secular opponents of Netanyahu use portions of the Declaration
as the most relevant political document to be reprinted on this flag. This "protest" flag is not
meant to be against the existence of the Israeli state, it shows support for Israel – but for a more
liberal-secular state than a conservative-religious one.
(source: jta.org)
William Garrison, 26 April 2023
![["Crime Minister" flag]](../images/i/il}cm.jpg)
image located by William Garrison
Caption: "Israelis observe a moment of silence for victims of a shooting in Jerusalem in which
seven people were killed by a Palestinian, at the beginning of an anti-government [protest] in Tel Aviv on
28 January 2023. (AP)"
(picture, source)
(Picture of a protest poster, showing the inscription entirely [source])
located by William Garrison, 24 August 2023
![[Shimon Perez flag]](../images/i/il}shp96.gif)
image by António Martins, 6 October 2023
Election campaign flag (1996) for Shimon Perez, with his name in Hebrew (The photo sticker was attached
later). Black writing on yellow (picture, reverse).
(source: ebay.com)
located by William Garrison, 18 September 2023
