Naval Rank Flags (Israel)

Last modified: 2005-01-22 by santiago dotor
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• Introduction
• Presidential Standard
• Prime Minister's Flag
• Minister of Defence's Flag
• Chief of the General Staff's Flag (Rosh ha'Mate ha'Klali / "Ramtakal")
• Commander-in-Chief of the Navy's Flag
• Rear Admiral's Flag (Aluf)
• Senior Officer's Pennant

See also:

• Rank Flags (Israel)
• War Ensign and Other Naval Flags (Israel)
• Israel

Introduction

The Israeli navy uses the same ranks as other branches of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), thus there are no admiral-like ranks. The flag that appears as rear admiral in Album des Pavillons 2000 is charged with the rank insignia of an Aluf (Major General) which is the rank of the GHQ members and the commander of the branches and regional commands and the second in the rank list. Since the only one in the navy that has this rank is the commander of the navy (who has his own rank flag), this one cannot be a rear admiral flag. I never saw that flag, but if it is exists it is in use, probably, only when another Aluf apart from the commander of the navy is visiting a naval vessel or base. IDF ranks are shown at the IDF website, Navy symbols and ranks at the Navy website.

Dov Gutterman, 6 February 2002

Of course, it is always difficult to translate ranks, but it has always been the practice of doing so with the most approximate rank in English (etc.). Rank systems are sometimes not quite equivalent —therefore some NATO members changed rank systems recently— so only an approximation is possible. When a language has no special terms for