"We would obviously have to create a flag, since we had none … Suddenly, I got a brainwave: We already had a flag—the blue and white of the tallith … We had but to unfurl it before the eyes of the Jewish people and the world at large!"
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David Wolffsohn describing the flag he designed for 1897 First Zionist Congress, quoted in "Flags of the forefathers and foremothers",Chicago Jewish Historical Society, 2021.
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