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| 1392.1 |  | STAR::FENSTER | Yaacov Fenster, OpenVMS Quality and Tools @ZKO 381-1154 4W15 | Tue Mar 08 1994 16:53 | 9 | 
|  | If I remember correctly, the stripes are reminiscent of the black/blue
stripes on the "Talit Gadol", The star of David is, well a star of
David. WIth regard to the blue I don't know. An interesting issue is that
the star of David was not originally a jewish symbol but a magical/kaballistic
symbol not directly associated with the jews. A more appropriate symbol would
have been the "Menora" which is in fact part of the offical emblem of the 
state of Israel.
	Yaacov
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| 1392.2 | beta version | SQGUK::LEVY | The Bloodhound | Tue Mar 08 1994 17:48 | 7 | 
|  |     Origionally the flag was going to have 12 stars
    representing the 12 tribes. 
    
    There were other differences, but I'd have to look them up
    to tell you.
    
    Malcolm
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| 1392.3 | Alpha version | TAVIS::JUAN |  | Thu Mar 10 1994 10:59 | 14 | 
|  |      Re: .2
>    Origionally the flag was going to have 12 stars
>    representing the 12 tribes. 
     The "Original" flag proposed by Theodore Herzl in his book "Altneuland"
     [Old-new-land] which started the new era p[olitical Zionism, i.e.: the
     movement, the political movement to return to Zion, to Israel, had 
     eight stars, representing 8 working hours per day, which were part
     of his utopia.
     Regards,
     Juan-Carlos Kiel
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| 1392.4 |  | SQGUK::LEVY | The Bloodhound | Thu Mar 10 1994 15:05 | 6 | 
|  |     Hi Juan,
    
    I don't remember that from chedar! Thanks for the correction. 
    
    Malcolm
    
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| 1392.5 | Menora ver Star of David | JEREMY::AVRI |  | Wed Apr 06 1994 10:38 | 11 | 
|  |     Hi
    Because of the history of the non religios zionist movement we have the
    	flag that started with 8 stars as Herzel applied .
    	The blue/white is a simbol of purity like the sky .
    	The question of the Menora was problematic both because practical
    	reasons and that the Menora has a religios conotation that in that
    	time was dificult to the zionist leaders .
    The Flag was the flag of the zionist movement .
    The Menora on the Israeli state , symbols the more religios conotation
    	it comes from the bible .
    \Avri
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| 1392.6 | thanks, everyone! | RDVAX::HABER | supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Fri Apr 08 1994 20:45 | 21 | 
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>JEREMY::AVRI                                         11 lines   6-APR-1994 10:38
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>                         -< Menora ver Star of David >-
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>    Hi
>    Because of the history of the non religios zionist movement we have the
>        flag that started with 8 stars as Herzel applied .
>        The blue/white is a simbol of purity like the sky .
>        The question of the Menora was problematic both because practical
>        reasons and that the Menora has a religios conotation that in that
>        time was dificult to the zionist leaders .
>    The Flag was the flag of the zionist movement .
>    The Menora on the Israeli state , symbols the more religios conotation
>        it comes from the bible .
>    \Avri
>
		Thanks, everyone,for your answers.  Jaime gets his "Aleph" 
award presented at services tonight.
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