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Presidential Standard (Israel)

(1:1) image by Željko Heimer

Presidential Standard for use Ashore
Presidential Standard for use Afloat
Historical Presidential Standards

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Presidential Standard for use Ashore

The flag is square, white bordered banner of the state's arms, blue, white menorah (seven-armed candlestick), olive branches and the name of state beneath.
Željko Heimer, 1 April 1996

The menorah on the emblem is a depiction of an engraving on Titus Arch in Rome of the menorah that stood in the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The menorah was looted by the Romans. Its fate is unknown.
Gideon Goldstein, 7 January 1998

The presidential flag can seen frequently at official occasions. Since those are usually indoors, they put some kind of frame around it to keep it spread all the time. The flag is made of blue silk with silver strings that are woven on the silk to make the Menorah and the border. When it is hoisted side by side with the national flag, one can see the difference between the white [on the national flag] and silver [on the presidential standard]. I guess that outdoors they may use a plain printed flag, but the so-called official one is silver.
Dov Gutterman, 13 February 2002

Beside the known framed flag there is also an hoisted one. It doesn't look like 1:1 but as 8:11.
Dov Gutterman, 22 June 2003

Presidential Standard for use Afloat

1:1
image by Željko Heimer

A note in Album des Pavillons 2000 explains that the version for use at sea is with yellow border instead of white.
Željko Heimer, 6 February 2002

I never saw a naval version of the presidential flag so I cannot tell how it looks like, however it seems odd that it would have a silver border and gold fringes, [so possibly the silver border is replaced by a gold one] and maybe the Menorah is gold too?
Dov Gutterman, 13 February 2002

Historical Presidential Standards

At the National Photo Collection, I located photo of historical Presidential Standard hosited on the president car.
It seems it was the state emblem on 1:1 white sqare. I guess the emblem was blue.
The photo caption is: "THE PRESIDENTIAL EMBLEM OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, OUTSIDE THE JEWISH AGENCY BUILDING IN JERUSALEM, DURING INAUGURATION OF CHAIM WEIZMAN AS ISRAEL'S 1ST PRESIDENT." it was taken on 17 February 1949.
Source: National Photo Collection, photo 7032.
Dov Gutterman, 21 June 2003

It seems that there was another version with state emblem insted of Magen David on vertical national flag (or maybe the above was only the car flag?) as seen in another photo from the National Photo Collection. "PRES. CHAIM WEIZMANN (CENTRE), WITH JAMES (R) MACDONALD & COMMANDER & MRS. GOLDBERG (L); THE BLUE AND WHITE FLAG WAS PRESENTED TO WEIZMANN BY AMERICAN JEWISH" it was taken on 26 October 1949.
Source: National Photo Collection, photo 7038.
Note that in a photo from 5 July 1950, you already can see the current presidential flag .
Dov Gutterman, 22 June 2003