When talking about the Israeli flag over the Ponovezh
yeshiva on Yom Ha’atzmaut, Rabbi Berel Wein wrote:
"Rabbi Yosef Kahaneman, the Ponevezher Rav, told me that
he flew the Israeli flag from the roof of his yeshivah building
in Bnei Brak on Yom Ha’atzmaut. When some locals
complained about this, he answered them with the following: 'I
flew the Lithuanian flag on the roof of my yeshivah in
Ponevezh on Lithuanian Independence Day. My friends, it is
no worse here.'"
