page_title: Flag desecration
section_title: Israel
hierarchical_section_title: Flag desecration / By jurisdiction / Israel
caption_attribution_description: Israeli flag burned by Neturei Karta in Brooklyn, New York City
context_page_description: Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public. In the case of a national flag, such action is often intended to make a political point against a country or its policies. Some countries have laws forbidding methods of destruction or forbidding particular uses; such laws may distinguish between desecration of the country's own national flag and flags of other countries.
context_section_description: In 2007 six teenagers in the South Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam were arrested for burning an Israeli flag. This incident was considered serious by the police and others since the youths were suspected in other acts of vandalism and claimed to be Satanists.
  In 2016, Israel passed an amendment, meaning those convicted of burning an Israeli flag, or the flag of allied countries, face up to three years in prison.
caption: A non-standard flag of Israel being burned by the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect
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