0369 - Old Jaffa view

Sent: 29.01.2020
Received: 12.02.2020
Travel time - 14 days

Sent by a Romanian postcrosser friend - from her trip in Israel. Thank you, Roxana!

0148 Israel Flag of country FOTW89

Send: 19.02.2017
Received 27.02.2017
Travel time: 8 days

Sender Irina from Israel.

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The flag of Israel (Hebrew: דגל ישראל‎ Degel Yisra'el; Arabic: علم إسرائيل‎ ʿAlam Israʼīl) was adopted on 28 October 1948, five months after the establishment of the State of Israel. It depicts a blue hexagram on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes.

The blue color is described as "dark sky-blue", and varies from flag to flag, ranging from a hue of pure blue, sometimes shaded almost as dark as navy blue, to hues about 75% toward pure cyan and shades as light as very light blue. The flag was designed for the Zionist Movement in 1891. The basic design recalls the Tallit (טַלִּית‎), the Jewish prayer shawl, which is white with black or blue stripes. The symbol in the center represents the Star of David (Magen David, מָגֵן דָּוִד), a Jewish symbol dating from late medieval Prague, which was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

In 2007, an Israeli flag measuring 660 m × 100 m (2,170 ft × 330 ft) and weighing 5.2 tons (5.7 short tons) was unfurled near the ancient Jewish fortress of Masada, breaking the world record for the largest flag.