List of flags of Israel

The following is a list of flags of Israel.

National flag and State flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1948—Present	State flag and National flag	The design recalls the Tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl, which is white with blue stripes. The hexagram in the centre is the Magen David ("shield of David"). Dimensions: 8:11
	1948—Present	Civil ensign	Blue flag with a white vertically elongated oval set near the hoist containing a vertically elongated blue Magen David. Dimensions: 2:3

Governmental flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	?—Present	Presidential standard	The flag is square, silver bordered banner of the state's arms, dark blue, silver menorah (seven-armed candlestick), olive branches and the name of state beneath. Dimensions: 7:8
	?—Present	Presidential standard (at sea)	Presidential standard with the border in yellow.

Military flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1949—Present	Israeli Defense Forces	Light blue defaced standard with the IDF emblem; and with the national flag in the canton. 8:11 ratio including the fringe
	1948—Present	Naval ensign	The flag is used by Israeli Navy, being a blue flag with white triangle at hoist and blue Magen David in it. Proportions are 2:3.
	1991—Present	Air force flag	Light blue flag with thin stripes, near top and bottom (closer to the edges than on the national flag), white with dark blue borders. In the center, the air force roundel but with points touching disc edges and a dark blue border.
	?—Present	Army (Land Arm) Flag	5 diagonal stripes, orange-red/white/green/black/orange-red, of proportions 2/1/5/1/2. In the center of the red stripe is a white-bordered gold disk, containing 4 semicircles of green, orange, black and orange-red. Superimposed over them is an upright black-outlined white bayonet blade, partially enclosed on its right by an olive branch, also in black-outlined white.
	1992—Present	Homefront Command (Pikud HaOref)	Diagonally divided blue and orange. The colours of the homefront command are the same to those appearing in its emblem.

Municipal flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1949—Present	Jerusalem (Capital City)	Based on the National flag, the flag of Jerusalem features in the center the city's coat of arms, which consists of a shield with the Lion of Judah superimposed on a stylized background representing the Kotel, flanked on either side with olive branches. The word יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (i.e. Yerushalayim, Hebrew for "Jerusalem") appears above the shield.
	1949—Present	Tel-Aviv-Yafo	Based on the National flag.
	?-Present	Haifa	The city's emblem on a light blue background.
	?-Present	Holon	Based on the national flag with the colors reversed and the city's emblem in lieu of the Star of David. The emblem may also appear in a white rectangular box, or drawn in white on the blue background.

Palestinian Flags

Main article: Palestine Flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1964—Present	Palestine	The flag is constituted of three equal horizontal bands (black, white, and green from top to bottom) overlaid by a red chevron issuing from the hoist. (See Pan-Arab colors.) The flag is almost identical to that of the Baath Party, and very similar to the flags of Jordan, and Western Sahara, all of which draw their inspiration from the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule (1916-1918). The flag of the Arab Revolt had the same graphic form, but the colours were arranged differently (white on the bottom rather than in the middle).
	1948—1959	Palestine	The All-Palestine Government Flag.
	1920–1948	British Mandate for Palestine	The Palestine ensign was red with the Union Flag in the canton, and a white circle on the fly with the mandate's name inside it.

See also

• Flag of Israel
• Coat of arms of Israel