At the ceremony of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State Israel, the dais was decorated with a picture of Theodor Herzl, flanked on either side by the flag of the World Zionist Organization (WZO). This flag, adopted by the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, was recognized by Jewish communities around the world as the emblem of Zionism and so it was natural to use the official proclamation of the State. Five and a half months earlier, on November 29, 1947 when the Jews of Eretz Israel had gone to the streets to celebrate the partition resolution of the UN, also carrying flags of the WZO and had used as a symbol of unification. In May, however, just days after the Zionist dream was made reality, the question arose of whether the flag should be the Zionist state flag should be replaced. The dilemma continued for about six months, until the Provisional Council of State proclaimed that the flag of the State of Israel should be as we know it today.

Legend has it that during the first congress of the WZO Theodor Herzl in Basel raised the issue of the Zionist flag. When his proposal for a white flag with seven stars of gold failed to get a general consensus, the member Wolffsohn David got up and said, "Why do we have to look for? Here is our national flag. " Showed his prayer shawl (Talita) and showed everyone the national flag: a white field with blue stripes along the margin.

Unlike the smaller (candelabra), the Lion of Judah, the shofar (ram's horn) and lulav (the palm frond), the Star of David was never a solely Jewish symbol. It was only the shield (Magen) and King David did not receive any Jew.

This was the reason why the Star of David met andalusia Zionism: it was a symbol that had already made widely available to Jewish communities, but it evoked no association clearly not religious. That was the reason why the star was included in the flag.

The Star of David became the emblem of the Zionist Jews everywhere. Non-Jews considered as representing not only the flow of the Zionist Judaism but the Jewish people in general.

The blue stripes of the flag Zionist serve as a counterweight to the secular message of the Star of David. They give the flag the religious ritual and totally absent in the Star of David. If the symbolic meaning of blue stripes was perceived consciously or not, originated in the Talita reminded supporters of the commandments of the Torah. The flag uses the Zionist Star of David to express the Jewish unity, which is directed according to the precepts of Torah, represented by the blue stripes and white background.