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image located by Esteban Rivera
Parachutist Infantry Regiment – Branch of Service Flag, obverse, featuring the Branch insignia, being the IDF Senior Paratrooper (Jumpmaster) Wings in black outline (cropped image from the original located here, source).
[Alternative version of the Branch of Service Flag, six flags printed together (source)]image located by Esteban Rivera
Parachutist Infantry Regiment (cropped image from the original located here). Picture caption reads: "New York, New York, USA. 23rd May, 2021. Demonstrators at a Pro Israel Rally in Times Square Sunday afternoon. The official rally was cancelled at the last minute due to concerns for violence but these protesters showed up anyway to show their pro Israel support. A few Pro-Palestine supporters showed up including Orthodox Jews that do not recognize the state of Israel. Protester holds flag insignia of Israel Paratroopers. Credit: Milo Hess/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News"
[Decorative variant with six flags printed together (source)]
image located by Esteban Rivera
Parachutist Infantry Regiment – Branch of Service Flag, obverse, featuring the Branch insignia, being the IDF Senior Paratrooper (Jumpmaster) Wings in red outline (cropped image from the original located here, source).
image located by Esteban Rivera
IDF Senior Paratrooper (Jumpmaster) Wings insignia (copied image from the original located
here,
source).
Esteban Rivera, 27 December 2022
image located by William Garrison
(source |
photo)
Friendship flag donated from the 35th Brigade to the "Paratroopers of Congo"
(Democratic Republic of the Congo, a.k.a. Congo-Léopoldville, later Zaire). The seller on the platform
indicates the year as 1966.
Inscription in Hebrew (obverse) and French (reverse): "From the Paratroopers of Israel to the
Paratroopers of Congo", given in the city of Kinshasa Ndjili (located in the Tshangu district of
Kinshasa, the capital city of the DRC). Large canvas flag in the colors of
Israel with embroidered text, with winged parachute on the back and coat-of-arms with winged snake
("shiffon") on a red shield on the front. Size: 158x216 cm. Some soiling, tear in the lower part.
(source)
William Garrison, 29 July 2024
image (left) located by William Garrison
Picture of 55th Paratroopers Brigade with their flag in Jerusalem
on June 6, 1967 (source).
Unlike the insignia (source: Wikipedia), on the flag there is also a laurel wreath around the symbol, probably in green.
located by William Garrison, 7 June 2023
image located by William Garrison
(source)
image located by Martin Karner
(source)
image located by Martin Karner
(source)
This unit, the Duchifat Battalion (Sayeret Dukhifat) is a battalion in the Kfir Brigade, it was originally established in 1984 as
an anti-tank unit, but now involved in urban combat maneuvers that include counter-terror operations,
apprehension of terrorists, patrols, manning checkpoints and regular security activities
(Wikipedia).
William Garrison, 29 July 2024