ISRAEL: Massive flags sets to achieve a World Guinness record

Record ID: 395510

  • Title: ISRAEL: Massive flags sets to achieve a World Guinness record
  • Date: 3rd December 2007
  • Summary: SISTER GRACE GALINDEZ-GUPANA WALKING ON FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (English) SISTER GRACE GALINDEZ-GUPANA, A PHILIPPINE BUSINESS WOMAN WHO DONATED THE FLAG TO ISRAEL, SAYING: "I am delivering a flag that was the Lord, God, Adonai. From the islands of the seas he will raise the sun and he commissioned me to make this flag. This flag is hard to do. We did it for two and a half years.
  • Embargoed: 18th December 2007 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA2ZCXCIC1WN0ACOVRAZ2J136R5
  • Story Text: Representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records measure flags of Israel and the Philippines, each the size of two football courts.
    Massive Israeli and Philippine flags, each the size of two football yards, were rolled out on Sunday (November 25) on the shores of the Dead Sea in southern Israel to set a new Guinness Record for the World's largest flag.
    The Israeli blue and white flag was stretched beside the red and blue Philippine flag. It was measured by a representative of Guinness World Records.
    "It is a two football fields every banner," said Daniel Rosen, an Israeli Director General of an organisation fighting anti-semitism.
    The Israeli flag is 100 meters (328 feet) long, and 200 meters (656 feet) wide, and weighs 5,200 kilograms.
    It is double the size of the American "Super Flag", which currently holds the record for the world's biggest flag. It made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1996.
    "God say raise up the banner. Lift up the banner for the land of Israel," Rosen said.
    The flags were airlifted from the Philippines to Israel's historical site of Massada, and were made as a donation by a Philippine business woman, Grace Galindez-Gupana, who wanted to express her affection to the Jewish state.
    "I am delivering a flag that was the Lord, God,"
    Galindez-Gupana said. "He commissioned me to make this flag. This flag is hard to do. We did it for two and a half years."
    Galindez-Gupana, a devout Christian who is also a nun, said she chose the date to mark 50 years of bilateral relations between Philippines and Israel.
    Last year Glaindez-Gupana initiated the sewing of a giant Philippine national flag in Manila. But strong winds tore apart the flag as hundreds of people unfurled it a bid to earn the record for the world's largest flag.
    Galindez-Gupana and the Christian group who funded the creation of the flag wanted to break the 10-year-old record held by the United States.
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