Just over a decade ago, the Palestinian flag hung alongside Israeli and American flags at the Israeli prime minister's residence, when Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shared a historic handshake.
Today, Netanyahu is back in power and Abbas never left, but many other things have changed, including Israel's attitude toward the Palestinian flag.
This month, new Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ordered police to take down Palestinian flags in any public place in Israel, claiming they are a rallying symbol for terrorists.
At least one artist felt forced to respond to Ben Gvir's decree.
As soon as he heard about the minister's order, Tel Aviv-based visual artist Michael Roznov drew himself in the colors of the Palestinian flag and made the artwork his Facebook profile picture.
"It's ridiculous, you want to take down flags? What if I am a flag, what would you do? Would you put me down because I'm wearing certain colors?" said Roznov, known as Mysh. "So I drew this illustration that took me 10 minutes."
He didn't expect it to attract much attention, but dozens of Israelis joined Mysh, asking him to draw their profile pictures with the Palestinian flag in the hope of making some impact.
"And then I thought, yeah, it would be nice to offer other people to join in. Because I like drawing and I like starting something online," Mysh told CNN.
Naturally, he also drew Ben Gvir clothed in the colors of the Palestinian flag, right up to his kippa, the skullcap worn by religious Jews.
Mysh is far from the only Israeli unhappy with Netanyahu's new government. The prime minister's right-wing coalition won a slim majority of the popular vote in November's elections, but critics and opponents object to a wide range of its moves, including the Palestinian flag public ban, increased deference to the ultra-Orthodox and plans to change the judicial system.
More than 100,000 people turned out in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, the latest -- and largest -- in a series of weekly protests against legal reforms Netanyahu's allies are planning.
But not all Israelis welcomed Mysh's drawings.
One commenter on Facebook accused Mysh of "spreading a flag of hate," adding: "What a bummer."
Another said: "What does this want to say? That it is now cool to belong to a nation that has surrendered to its terrorist leaders? Hamas doesn't want peace with us, what's not clear?"
Mysh made a point of replying to each comment to explain and even try to convince his critics.
But he believes that Ben Gvir's attempt to publicly ban the Palestinian flag -- which is technically legal to fly in Israel -- is a continuation of the direction Israel has been moving toward since its founding in 1948.
"It's definitely a step forward for the craziness, but nothing surprising," Mysh said. "I think what we see now is the shattering of this illusion that most Israelis try to maintain, that they can live in a liberal democracy that respects all human rights, while simultaneously robbing five million people more of the same basic rights," he said, referring to the Palestinian population.
An artist who uses different media -- film and animation, illustration and comics – to address social and political issues, as well as sexuality and gender, Mysh came to Israel at the age of 16 from Russia in 1994 and served in its army for three years.
But one day doing his reserve service at an Israeli checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, he says he had a powerful insight into the Palestinian experience.
