Israeli flags

Moroccan soccer fans trying to snatch an Israeli flag at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow after a FIFA World Cup match on June 20. (Screen capture: YouTube)

June 20, 2018, 10:49 pm

Israeli World Cup fans say Moroccans didn’t try to grab flag: ‘They welcomed us’

After footage appears to show soccer supporters trying to snatch Israel flag at Moscow stadium, Israelis say scuffle was in fact over player’s shirt

By Michael Bachner

June 20, 2018, 10:03 pm

Moroccan fans appear to scuffle with Israel flag holders at World Cup

Footage shows supporters apparently trying to snatch banner, after Morocco loses and suffers early exit from soccer tournament

By Michael Bachner

April 18, 2018, 3:15 pm

Varda Spiegel

The asylum seekers and the flag

Sudanese families were dumped in my town in 2007; we welcomed them — from both ends of the political spectrum

Israelis wave the Israeli flag as they parade in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on May 24, 2017 to commemorate Jerusalem Day, marking the reunification of the city following the 1967 Six Day War. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

May 24, 2017, 8:58 pm

Tens of thousands march around Old City to celebrate Jerusalem Day

Heavy security ensures few incidents during controversial Flag March to mark 50 years since reunification of city

By TOI staff and AFP

Demonstrators wave Palestinian and Peace Now flags at West Bank protest against settler violence near Michmash Junction, April 28, 2017. (Times of Israel/Jacob Magid)

April 28, 2017, 8:38 pm

Police prevent left-wing rally at outpost against settler violence

250 activists, including 3 Meretz MKs, barred from reaching Baladim, scene of attacks last week; forced to hold protest at Michmash Junction

By Jacob Magid

A flag created by Rabbi Jacob Askowith in 1891 for a Boston Jewish group, B’nai Zion (Courtesy of Brandeis University)

December 16, 2016, 3:33 am

How Israel can trace its flag’s roots to Boston, 1891

The ‘flag of Judah,’ paraded in Beantown 125 years ago, quickly captured the imagination of the Zionist movement

By Josefin Dolsten

An Iranian professor avoids stepping on an Israeli flag painted onto the ground at a university in northeastern Iran, in footage released November 5, 2016. (MEMRI/screenshot)

November 15, 2016, 6:53 am

Iranian scholar refuses to tread on Israeli, US flags

Professor Sadegh Zibakalam avoids stepping on the symbols at university entrance, calling such acts disrespectful

By TOI staff

Hapoel's Ben Bitton, left, tries to tackle Celtic's Scott Sinclair, center, during the UEFA Champions League group stages play-off football match between Celtic and Hapoel Beersheba at the Turner Stadium in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on August 23, 2016. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

August 24, 2016, 1:28 am

Israel’s soccer champions narrowly lose Euro spot to Scotland’s Celtic

Despite impressive 2-0 win over visiting Scots, Hapoel Beersheba loses in aggregate after last week’s 5-2 trouncing in Glasgow

By AFP and TOI staff

Demonstrators burn a flag during a protest on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

July 27, 2016, 9:05 am

Protesters burn Israeli flag outside Democratic convention

Demonstrators in Philadelphia chant ‘Long live the intifada,’ also set light to pro-Bernie Sanders fliers

By AP

Thousands of young Jewish boys wave Israeli flags as they celebrate Jerusalem Day, dancing and marching their way through Damascus Gate on the way to the Western Wall of Jerusalem's Old City, June 5, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

June 5, 2016, 5:28 pm

Few incidents as Jerusalem Day marchers parade through Muslim Quarter

Religious nationalist Jews, some sporting stickers identifying with far-right groups, sing and dance with flags under heavy guard on eve of Ramadan

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli beach volleyball duo Sean Faiga and Ariel Hilman (Courtesy: IVA Facebook)

April 4, 2016, 8:07 pm

Israeli beach volleyball duo make history in Qatar

Sean Faiga and Ariel Hilman beat Japanese rivals, become first team to play in Arab state that has no ties with Israel

By Dov Lieber

Memorial tributes for the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks at the Place de la Bourse in the capital, March 22, 2016. (Carl Court/Getty Images/JTA)

March 29, 2016, 8:28 pm

Man fails to take Israel flag from Brussels memorial

Video shows pro-Palestinian protester reaching for the banner, then shoved to the ground amid applause

By JTA

Israeli artist Ariel Bronz after penetrating himself with an Israeli flag during the Haaretz Cultural Conference at Tel Aviv Museum, March 6, 2016. (YouTube: Haaretz)

March 6, 2016, 10:36 pm

Backside-baring artist shocks conference crowd

Ariel Bronz causes uproar at Haaretz Tel Aviv cultural event by ramming a flag into his exposed rear end

By TOI staff

Khader Abu-Seif draped in opposing flags for part of the Celebration series by photographer Xavier Klaine (Courtesy Xavier Klaine)

March 4, 2016, 1:29 am

Gay Arab activist wraps himself in the flags

Khader Abu-Seif poses with the symbols of the two ‘states have screwed me for 28 years of my life’

By Jessica Steinberg

Controversial actress Natali Cohen Vaxberg (YouTube)

January 13, 2016, 6:38 pm

Activist to be indicted for defecating on Israeli flag

Controversial artist Natali Cohen Vaxberg could face jail time for defiling national symbol

By Tamar Pileggi