The F is this? JAO? Have you ever heard of this?
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The flag was only changed in 1996, but there's no mention on the wiki of who wanted to change it and why, and what the flag was before that. Pretty big omissions for such a recent event.
Also of interest is that, in the only other officially Jewish jurisdiction in the world besides Israel, there are almost no Jews left, with less than 1% of the population.
This image comes up when I search for that:
https://cdn.fishki.net/upload/post/2019/11/15/3141577/1200px-coat-of-arms-of-the-jewish-autonomous-oblast.jpg
That might be the pre-1996 flag.
I did see that, but normally people that are into these kinds of things are very careful to distinguish "flags" from "coats of arms". But it's weird, isn't it, in this "age of universal knowledge through the Innerwebz", that when you go looking for the answer to such a seemingly simple question you just cannot find it.
And how would that thing even relate to Judaism? Is it the "Tiger of Judah"? Strange all the way around.