Israel is ...
God's Chosen People
The Apple of God's Eye
His Son
His First Born
His Wife
Israel Will Live FOREVER!
"Am Yisrael Chai,"
"The nation of Israel lives"
Israel's Flag
Israel's flag was adopted on October 28, 1948.
The flag is white with two horizontal blue bands and a blue Star of David in the center.
The colours blue and white were taken from the colours of the Jewish prayer shawl (tallit).
The Star of David (Magen David) is a traditional symbol of the Jewish people.
David Wolffsohn, who attended the First Zionist Congress in 1897, tells the story of the birth of the Israeli flag:
"At the request of our leader Herzl, I came to Basle to make preparations for the Zionist Congress. Among many other problems that occupied me then was one, which contained something of the essence of the Jewish problem.
What flag would we hang in the Congress Hall?
Then an idea struck me.
We have a flag - and it is blue and white.
The Tallit (prayer shawl) with which we wrap ourselves when we pray: that is our symbol.
Let us take this Tallit from its bag and unroll it before the eyes of Israel and the eyes of all nations.
So I ordered a blue and white flag with the Shield of David painted upon it.
That is how the national flag, which flew over Congress Hall, came into being.
The blue stripes above and below the Magen David remind us of the Tallit.
When we see the Israeli flag, we remember the faith and the prayers of the many generations of Jews who longed for the return to their homeland."
The Magen David is a traditional symbol of the Jewish People. The star is made up of two triangles, one right-side up and the other upside down.
One of them points upward toward all that is spiritual and holy.
The other one points downward - toward all that is earthly and secular.
By following the teaching of the Torah and mitzvot Jewish People try to bring together the worlds of spiritual and the earthly, the worlds of the holy and the secular.
Legend says that King David adorned his shield with this six-pointed star, so the star is called the Magen David - the Star of David.
The Eastern Gate ~ The gate which Messiah Yeshua will enter through, after He descends down upon the Mount of Olives, at His Second Coming. And it is there in Jerusalem, where He will sit upon the Throne of David, to rule and reign over all the earth for a thousand years. Hallelujah!!!! Maranatha!!!!
