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# Pre-1930 Zionist flag (Israel)

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Last modified: 2026-07-25 by martin karner
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image located by Andy Behrens

See also:

- Flag in Larousse Dictionary (1930s)
- Hofiya Shipping Company (British Mandate of Palestine)
- Zionist Flags (Israel)
- Israel

This photo shows a pre-1930 Zionist flag. I found it in the essay East of Zion (https://aeon.co/essays/what-happened-to-the-ideal-of-multireligious-arab-modernity, picture). It is captioned "British and Zionist flags fly over an Arab village.
Photo taken between 1898 and 1930. Courtesy the Matson Collection at the Library of Congress". [The photo shows also a car from the 1910s. So it can be further narrowed to the years 1910–1930.]
It resembles the flag in the Larousse Dictionary, except the stripes run horizontally.
The photo is black-and-white, of course, and has been taken with orthochromatic file, which renders blues much lighter than they are, and renders red as almost black. I would guess that the lower stripe is dark blue (approximately the same as the blue of the Union Jack beside it), and the star is yellow.
Andy Behrens, 4 December 2021