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image from agudah.israel-live.de
I located this flag (?) at agudah.israel-live.de.
The symbol inside the flag is named Keshet Ga'Hava
(Rainbow of pride). The site belongs to "Agudah –
National GLBT Association in Israel". GLBT stand for
"Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender".
I don't know if such flag really exist. There was a "pride
parade" in Jerusalem a week ago but the only flags shown in
the papers were the regular rainbows.
Dov Gutterman, 14 and 24 June 2003
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 6 March 2010
The Spanish newspaper El
Mundo has published on its online edition today a picture of
a gay flag with a white
Star of David in the middle.
Esteban Rivera, 2 August 2009
The flag is also shown on a photo from Getty Images, which was
published on Daylife
website. As can be seen there, it was used at the annual Gay
parade in Jerusalem in June 2009.
Tomislav Todorovic, 6 March 2010
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 6 July 2013
The flag variant with the red stripe at the top was used in New York City, at the New York Pride Parade 2010.
Tomislav Todorović, 6 July 2015
The flag is increasingly being used in Israel with purple at the top. A photo
from Jerusalem Pride 2011 can be found here:
https://www.alamy.com/an-israeli-carries-a-rainbow-flag-before-the-annual-jerusalem-parade-for-gay-pride-and-tolerance-in-central-jerusalem-july-28-2011-upidebbie-hill-image257484007.html
and one from Jerusalem Pride 2015, here:
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/72229/mayor-wont-attend-jerusalem-gay-pride-parade-religious-reasons/
while the photos from Jerusalem Pride 2016 can be viewed here:
https://forward.com/fast-forward/425533/dc-dyke-march-bans-jewish-pride-flag/
and here:
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/the-pride-parade-what-are-they-proud-of/2019/07/11/
A photo published in 2016, without any information on place and time,
but clearly taken in Israel (note the inscriptions in Hebrew on the buildings in
background) is available here:
https://vosizneias.com/2016/05/17/jerusalem-israel-earmarks-extra-funds-for-lgbt-community-and-transgender-hostel/
Another photo, published in 2018, but certainly taken earlier (from the
text, it is clear that it could not have been taken at Jerusalem Pride 2018,
which was yet to take place several days later), can be seen here:
https://israelb.org/2018/07/road-closures-timetable-pride-parade-in-jerusalem-on-thursday/
Lastly, a video from Tel Aviv Pride 2016, available here:
https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/67418640-jewish-man-yarmulke-kippah-rainbow-flag-tel-aviv-israel
displays two flags, one with red and the other with purple stripe at the top,
being used jointly, thus revealing the design as another "no right side up" LGBT
flag.
Tomislav Todorovic, 1 March 2020
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 5 April 2010
The rainbow flag with the national flag of Israel in canton, which was
used at the Jerusalem gay pride parade on 2009-06-25, is shown
here.
The flag employs different shades of blue for the rainbow stripe and
for the national flag. The shades of rainbow colors are the same as
those on the rainbow flag with white Star of David. The
aspect ratio of the flag is about 3:5 and that of the canton is the
same as that of the stand-alone national flag, its width being half of
the flag width.
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 April 2010
image located by Bill Garrison, 19 August 2021
A maroon or crimson flag with text on it. They appear to say "MY FREEDOM IS YOUR
FREEDOM".
Source:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/
Caption: Jerusalem Pride Parade 2021,
(photo credit: TZVI JOFFRE)
Bill Garrison, 19 August 2021
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2021
At Jerusalem Pride 2019, a flag was seen which resembled the
Jewish Rainbow Flags used outside Israel but
differed from all of those designs described so far [1, 2]. Here, the blue
stripes were reduced to innermost one-third of their original width, the rest of
their original areas being covered with the rainbow patterns on which violet
occupied the outermost position. The shade of blue (all areas) was lighter than
in the national flag of Israel, as can be verified by comparing with the
national flags as well as the rainbow flags which are visible in the other
photos taken at the same event [2].
Sources:
[1] The Washington Times
website:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/ap_israel_gay_pride_54078jpg
[2] Siouxland News website:
https://siouxlandnews.com/news/nation-world/jerusalem-gay-pride-parade-draws-revelers-police
Tomislav Todorovic, 16 February 2021
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 1 August 2021
In Israel, the flag of transgender people in prevailing use is green, with
large black transgender symbol (U+26A7) in black. The symbol is sometimes
painted by hand over an all-green flag. The mirror-image of the symbol, its two
top "branches" being in reversed positions, appears sometimes as well. The
examples of the flag use include:
- Tel Aviv Pride 2008 [1, 2]
- Jerusalem
Pride 2009 [3]
- protests after the 2009 shooting in the Tel Aviv building of
Agudah [4, 5, 6, 7]
- Tel Aviv Pride 2010 [8, 9]
- Tel Aviv Pride 2011
[10]
- Haifa Pride 2014 [11]
- protests after the homophobic attacks at
the Jerusalem Pride 2015 [12]
- Haifa Pride 2017 [13]
- protests against
the anti-trans violence in Tel Aviv in 2018 [14]
- Jerusalem Pride 2019 [15,
16]
The flag is not known to be used outside Israel.
Sources:
[1] Flickr - Photo from Tel Aviv Pride, on 2008-03-09:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadjao/3631671315/
[2] Flickr - Photo from
Tel Aviv Pride, on 2008-03-09:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadjao/3632474870/
[3] Flickr - Photo from
Jerusalem Pride, on 2009-06-26:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyalkassirer/3662694192/
[4] Dreamstime
photo archive - Photo from Tel Aviv protest rally on 2009-08-01:
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-shooting-tel-aviv-gay-bar-image10389569
[5] Dreamstime photo archive - Photo from Tel Aviv protest rally on
2009-08-01:
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-shooting-tel-aviv-gay-bar-image10389827
[6] Dreamstime photo archive - Photo from Tel Aviv protest rally on
2009-08-01:
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-shooting-tel-aviv-gay-bar-image10389671
[7] Dreamstime photo archive - Photo from Tel Aviv protest rally on
2009-08-01:
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photography-shooting-tel-aviv-gay-bar-image10389747
[8] Flickr - Photo from Tel Aviv Pride, on 2010-06-11:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7971992@N02/4691880242/
[9] Flickr - Photo
from Tel Aviv Pride, on 2010-06-11:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/igorzed/5866848598/
[10] Flickr - Photo
from Tel Aviv Pride, on 2011-06-10:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liormania/5818112825/
[11] A Wider Bridge
organization website - Report from Haifa Pride 2014:
https://awiderbridge.org/lgbt-pride-in-haifa/
[12] The Times of Israel
newspaper website - Photo from Jerusalem protest rally on 2015-08-01:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-violence-protests-to-be-held-across-israel/
[13] Deposit Photos photo archive - Photo from Haifa Pride, on 2017-06-30:
https://depositphotos.com/158765048/stock-photo-haifa-11th-pride-parade-2017.html
[14] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from the protest rally in Florentin, Tel Aviv
on 2018-07-22:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LGBT_Potesting_in_Florentine,_south_Tel_Aviv_2.jpg
[15] A Wider Bridge organization website - Photos from the 2019 Pride events
in Jerusalem and other Israeli cities:
https://awiderbridge.org/celebrating-40-lgbtq-prides-across-israel/
[16]
A Wider Bridge organization at Facebook - Photo from Jerusalem Pride 2019:
https://www.facebook.com/AWiderBridge/photos/a.356460234372536/2480612588623946/?type=3
Tomislav Todorovic, 1 August 2021
