Capital

Jerusalem

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1948

Designer

Not individually credited

Israel

Colors and meaning

• Blue #0038B8

  The tallit, the traditional Jewish prayer shawl whose blue stripes the flag directly reproduces

• White #FFFFFF

  The tallit's white field

Symbolism and history

Two horizontal blue stripes frame a blue Star of David at the center of a white field, adopted at independence in 1948 by adapting the flag first used by the Zionist movement in 1897 and modeled directly on the tallit.

No documented visual overlap

Israel’s design isn’t a close visual match for any other current national flag. A few more flags from Asia, for browsing:

• Syria
• Tajikistan
• Thailand

Further reading: Flag of Israel on Wikipedia