Israel Flag Emoji
The Israel flag emoji 🇮🇱 shows a white field with two horizontal blue stripes near the top and bottom, and a blue Star of David centered between them.
When the Israel flag emoji is used
People use the Israel flag emoji for Israeli identity, travel and location, national events, sport, culture, or news about Israel. In discussion of conflict or politics, a flag alone can be interpreted as a broad political statement; add specific, neutral wording when you mean a place, person, institution, or event.
This region sequence identifies Israel. It should not be used as the only label for a person, language, religion, political position, or a specific location within a news event.
Common names and searches
Platform rendering status for the Israel flag emoji
PasteMoji has not recorded versioned, dated rendering evidence for the platforms below. The same IL Unicode region sequence may appear as a flag, letter indicators, or fallback characters depending on the operating system, font, app, and version.
Display detail: Platforms differ in the shade of blue, spacing of the horizontal stripes, and detail of the Star of David. Small text sizes can soften the star’s edges, but the blue-and-white structure remains the primary visual cue.
What the Colors Mean
Flag History
Adopted five months after independence in October 1948, the design places the Star of David between two blue stripes modeled on the tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl. The layout came from the flag of the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
✨ Did you know?
The exact shade of blue was never precisely defined in law — official flags have varied from sky blue to deep navy over the decades.
Unicode sequence for 🇮🇱
The Israel flag is not one code point. It is a valid emoji flag sequence made from two Regional Indicator Symbols associated with the region code IL. Unicode defines the sequence; each platform chooses how to draw the resulting flag.
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter I
- 🇮 · U+1F1EE
- Regional Indicator Symbol Letter L
- 🇱 · U+1F1F1
Full sequence: U+1F1EE U+1F1F1. Copy the rendered flag above instead of copying one indicator by itself.
Accessible description for 🇮🇱
When the image or national identity matters, keep the country name in visible text. A concise description is: “Flag of Israel: a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white field.”
Screen readers may announce the country, the region code, or the individual symbols depending on the software. Do not use the flag alone for a language picker or critical navigation.