This man is selling flags in Tel Aviv. A few weeks before Israeli Independence Day, people hang flags from their balconies and from their car windows. The words to a popular Israeli Independence Day song are "kol ha'aretz, degalim, degalim" which means "the whole county, flags, flags."
Israel Independence Day Flags
by Lisa Katz
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