“At the behest of our leader Herzl, I came to Basle to make preparations for the Zionist Congress. Among many other problems that occupied me then was one that contained something of the essence of the Jewish problem. What flag would we hang in the Congress Hall? Then an idea struck me. We have a flag — and it is blue and white. The talith with which we wrap ourselves when we pray: that is our symbol. Let us take this Talith from its bag and unroll it before the eyes of Israel and the eyes of all nations. So I ordered a blue and white flag with the Shield of David painted upon it.” David Wolffsohn, the second president of the World Zionist Organization (1897)
‘Jewish World/Unwilling flag wavers?’ by Roi Ben-Yehuda, ‘Haaretz’, (an Israeli news paper)
a nicely written article that turned very controversial.
