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Giv'ati Brigade – Branch of Service Flag (Israel)

Khativat Giv'ati

3:4 | 90×120 cm
image by Dov Gutterman

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The flags are rectangular, 90 cm × 120 cm and divided diagonally by a line going from the upper hoist to the bottom fly.
Nahum Shereshevsky, 23 June 1997

Bottom hoist is purple, upper fly is white. The purple derives from the colour of their berets, and that derives from the fact that most other colours were already taken! (...) The main element of the flag is usually the shoulder patch or a similar design. Since these are awarded to brigade-level (or equivalent) formations while flags are awarded to regiment/batallion-level formations, the latter flags have additional elements to distinguish the specific battalion. (...) The finials are in the shape of the corps emblems and attached to them are campaign streamers.
Nahum Shereshevsky, 25 May 1998

The original Giva'ati Infantry Regiment (5th Regiment) was one of IDF regiments during the Independence War. The current Giva'ati Infantry Regiment (84th Regiment a.k.a. The Young Giv'ati) was orginized in 1983 and soon afterwards adopted the name "Giva'ati" and the purple as its color.
Source: www.givati.org.il.
Dov Gutterman, 5 June 2007

"Givati soldiers are designated by purple berets. The Brigade's symbol is the fox, alluding to Shualei Shimshon (שועלי שמשון, lit. 'Samson's Foxes'), a unit in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War." (Wikipedia)
Martin Karner, 31 January 2024

Brigade Flags with emblem

images located by William Garrison

The Givati Brigade Flag with emblem (source: haaretz.com, picture)
(See also here in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip on 30 January 2024).
William Garrison, 31 January/(23 December) 2024

Flag of Tzabar Battalion

image located by Martin Karner

Caption: "A flag of the Givati Infantry Brigade's Tzabar Battalion and 3 guns hang on a wall in the assembly apartment of the IDF soldiers during their activities in recent days in destroying terrorist targets and locating terrorist tunnels in the Rafah sector and the Philadelphi Corridor along a 14 km strip of land at a border between Egypt and Gaza, in the tenth month of the Iron Swords War. Rafah, Gaza Strip, Aug 5, 2024. Photo by TPS". Inscription: Gidud Tzabar (Tzabar Battalion).
(Original photo, source: https://media.tps.co.il)