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Israel Chief of General Staff has a personal flag, crimson
with the golden symbol of armed forces (erected sword on olive
branch, on two horizontal wings, on one bent anchor, surrounded
by a garland of palms) in the fly and with the national
flag in the canton. This flag is presented in its naval form (i.e. on blue field) in Album des
Pavillons 1990, correction no.30 [pay98].
Armand Noel du Payrat, 19 May 1999
The naval version of the flag is used
probably only when the Chief of the General Staff is visiting a
naval facility. The one that is in his chambers is crimson (...)
with gold emblem.
Dov Gutterman, 7 November 2000 and 31 August 2001
In the photo of an actual flag of the Chief of General Staff reported by Dov Gutterman I would note three things:
Joseph McMillan, 6 February 2002
A note in Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] says that the flag for use
on land is purple. This is wrong and should be dark red or
crimson.
eljko Heimer, 8 February 2002
The specifications talks about argeman (crimson) and
not adom (red). I believe Armand Noel du Payrat
intends to correct this in Album des Pavillons 2002 [pay02].
Dov Gutterman, 9 February 2002
image located by William Garrison
Variant with light-blue coloured national flag in the canton. The shade of blue corresponds to the one on
the IDF flag (see the flags on the far left and far right on the photo).
(source)
located by William Garrison, 25 April 2024
As reported in Ministry of Defence 1974 [mod74] and Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] |
As reported by Uri Dotan |
2:3
image by eljko Heimer, 8 February 2002 |
2:3 image by eljko Heimer, 14 February 2006 |
Same as for the Minister of Defence,
but the badge consisting of a combination of a sword, wings,
anchor, and olive branch, all within an olive wreath. Source:
Ministry of Defence 1974 [mod74].
Joseph McMillan, 7 November 2000
In an article in Flagmaster [flm] no. 059, Zvi Ruder specifies the
anchor in the Chief of the General Staff and Commander of the Navy badges is
mistakenly shown twisted the other way round in Flags of All
Nations 1958 [hms58]. This
is the way I presented it in the Album des Pavillons
1990 [pie90], correction no.30
and in Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] and they were at the time
checked both by Zvi Ruder and Nahum Shereshevsky.
Armand Noel du Payrat, 7 November 2000
The plates I copied from Ministry of Defence 1974 [mod74] are not in color. They are
shown in black, white, and gray. (...) The only distinction of
colors is that the blue in the national flag in the Minister of
Defence and the Chief of General Staff canton is shown as light
gray while the field of these and the other flags is shown as
black. The Magen David on the other command flags is
shown in the same black as the field, while the Magen David
on the naval ensign is shown as gray.
Joseph McMillan, 7 November 2000
Israeli flags use the same shade
of blue (...). Rank flags use the same shade of blue for the Magen
David and stripes in the canton as for the background.
Dov Gutterman, 8 September 2001
Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00] shows it as a blue flag with
the national flag in the canton and a
yellow emblem in the lower fly. The emblem consist of an upright
sword with an olive branch, an anchor, some waves in base and all
encircled with an [olive] wreath. Album
des Pavillons 2000 shows no yellow border as in the prime minister and minister
of defence flags, but as we have seen on photos, golden
fringe is not unusual.
eljko Heimer, 8 February 2002
The flag for use on land is correct. However, when visiting
naval bases, ships, etc. the flag used is as the Navy ensign with the symbol of the IDF
supreme command on it.
Uri Dotan, 27 September 2002
Since I never saw that flag, he could be right. However, I do
believe that the correct flag is the naval ensign charged with
the emblem and not the blue version of the land flag. Anyway I
guess they both should appear until further confirmation.
Dov Gutterman, 27 September 2002 / 8 February 2006
I lived in Israel from 1988 to 1990, and at the time there were two army flags (as I get them from
memory), one of them was, I think, the army staff flag (red with the national flag in the canton and the
golden army device on the lower fly). I also saw a variant, red with a navy officer's device at the lower
fly.
Roberto Rossetti, 8 May 1998
The only red (actually crimson) IDF flag that I know of is the Chief of Staff flag [see above], which
Roberto Rossetti describes as with a navy officer's device, which actually is a
combination of a sword, wings, an anchor and an olive branch, representing the entire IDF (including Army,
Air Force and Navy). Maybe the flag he describes is a unit flag of the General Staff.
Nahum Shereshevsky, 8 May 1998