* Flag Day or Magen David Day ( Israel )

The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures ( such as a Menorah, a Magen David and the number which represents the age of the State of Israel ) and the lighting of twelve beacons ( one for each of the Tribes of Israel ).

Further we see the rooster placed within the Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David and recognized of Jewish identity and Judaism.

In excavations at Gibeon, near Jerusalem, dating to the seventh century B. C., potsherds were found incised with cocks and " some of them placed within the six-pointed star of the Magen David.

The President also appoints the Governor of the Bank of Israel, the State Comptroller upon recommendation of the Knesset House Committee, the President of Magen David Adom, and the members and leaders of several institutions.

It also lobbied successfully for inclusion of Magen David Adom in the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.

* Magen David of West Deal, ( Orthodox, Syrian traditions )

* Magen David Adom ( Hebrew: מגן דוד אדום ‎, " Red Star of David "), the national aid organization of Israel and affiliate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

In addition, the President endorses the credentials of ambassadors and receives the credentials of foreign diplomats, appoints the Governor of the Bank of Israel, the State Comptroller upon recommendation of the Knesset House Committee, members of the Council on Higher Education, the National Academy of Science, the Broadcasting Authority, the Authority to Rehabilitate Prisoners, the Chief Rabbinical Council, the Wolf Foundation, the President of Magen David Adom, the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and ceremonially appoints the Prime Minister.

Helicopter of Magen David Adom

* Magen David Adom

The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David ( Hebrew ; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian, Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid or Mogen Dovid ) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.

Magen David Adom ( MDA ) ( Red Star of David or, translated literally, Red Shield of David ) is Israel's only official emergency medical, disaster, ambulance service.

According to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Magen David Adom was boycotted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which refused to grant the organization membership because " it was … argued that having an emblem used by only one country was contrary to the principles of universality.

File: Magen David Adom. svg | The Magen David Adom emblem

* Magen David Synagogue: is believed to be one of the oldest ones in the city.

David Sassoon, a Baghdadi Jew, built the Magen David Synagogue in 1861 in Byculla, where the family first lived.

* Solomon Sopher ( chairman of the Magen David Synagogue and Sassoon schools and Social worker )

* Magen David Synagogue, Byculla, Mumbai

Its structure from inside is the same as the Magen David synagogue of Byculla.

He built one of the largest and most beautiful synagogues of India, the Magen David synaguogue at Byculla, Mumbai.

; 1939, 23 November 1939: Hans Frank ordered for all Jewish Poles above the age of 11 years in German-occupied Poland to wear white armbands with a blue Magen David on.

Two Jewish women in Occupied France | Occupied Paris in June 1942 wearing Magen David badges as required by Nazi authorities.

* The Magen David – How the Six-Pointed Star Became an Emblem for The Jewish People ( 1991 ) ISBN 0-910250-16-2

The quarter is often represented by the flag of Prague's Jewish community, a yellow Magen David ( Star of David ) on a red field.

The Magen David, the shields of David, has come to be used in modern times, as a universal symbol of Jewish national identity.

The Magen David was adopted by the Zionist Movement as the Jewish national symbol.

Abraham Abele Gombiner ( Hebrew: אברהם אבלי הלוי גומבינר ) ( c. 1635 – oct 5, 1682 ), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin ( Gombin ), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority in the Jewish community of Kalish, Poland during the seventeenth century.

He also received several honors for his service among the Jewish Community while he was a council member of the Montreal Jewish Community, an honorary president of the Montreal's Jewish community centres and the director of Magen David Adom for Israel.

Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg entered the discussion commenting on how one could feed such large numbers of community members: " Were we to accept the claim that the sect lived at Qumran for about 170 years, we would expect to find hundreds of cooking and baking ovens as well as thousands of cooking pots.

"… The decision of the author of Magen Abraham that the commandment is honored best by the use of old wine is rejected.

Yitzakh Magen argues that the version of Chronicles is perhaps closer to the historical truth, and that the Assyrian settlement was unsuccessful, a notable population remained in Samaria, part of which, following the conquest of Judah, fled south and settled there as refugees.

Influenced by the teaching of Rabbi Nissim of Gerona, via Ephraim Vidal's Yeshiva in Majorca, Duran's commentary Magen Avot (" The Shield of the Fathers "), which influenced Joseph Albo, is important.

He is the author of Magen Avos.

Other authorities, including the Magen Avraham, have written that one should drink until one is unable to calculate the gematria ( numerical values ) of both phrases.

Mogen David is the Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew Magen David, which literally means " shield of David ", but is used metaphorically in English to refer to the six-pointed Star of David.

Its motto is " Magen VeLo Yera ' e " (, lit.

* Magen David Adom ( Red Shield of David ): Magen David Adom ( MDA ) is made up of volunteer and professional medical responders and provides the Israel's pre-hospital emergency medical needs, including disaster, ambulance, and blood services.

Israel Weapon Industries ( IWI ), formerly the " Magen " division of the Israel Military Industries Ltd. ( IMI ) is an Israeli firearms manufacturer.

Magen David Adom is mainly staffed by volunteers, and has over 10, 000 people volunteering over one million man / hours per year.

The minimum age to join Magen David Adom's basic first aid course and become a volunteer is 15.

In her March 2000 letter to the International Herald Tribune, Dr. Bernadine Healy, then president of the American Red Cross, wrote: " The international committee's feared proliferation of symbols is a pitiful fig leaf, used for decades as the reason for excluding the Magen David Adom — the Shield ( or Star ) of David.

Magen David Adom spokesman Yeruham Mendola responded to the claims by saying: " The guidelines set by the Ministry of Health determines that anyone who was born, or who lived for over a year since 1977 in Central Africa, Southeast Asia or the Caribbean Islands, or has spent over six months in Britain, or was in France, Ireland or Portugal for over 10 years — can choose not to donate blood, or donate blood, which is then marked, and know that it will not be used for transfusions.

The hexagram in the centre is the Magen David (" shield of David ").

In the center of the hexagon is a Magen david ( Star of David ), and inside it are the Hebrew letters Aleph Zadik Aleph.

He likewise wrote a commentary on the Abot de-Rabbi Natan, entitled Magen Avot, which is still extant in manuscript.