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The Star of David is made out of six points and two triangles. This was used by the jewish people when the natiz came around.
The Star of David
The Star of david is named after It is named after King David of ancient Israel; and its earliest known communal usage began in the Middle Ages[citation needed], alongside the more ancient symbol of the menorah. Geometrically it is the hexagram.
A popular folk tale etymology has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite warrior David, who would later become King David. In order to save metal, the shield was not made of metal but of leather spanned across the simplest metal frame that would hold the round shield: two interlocking triangles. No reliable historical evidence for this etymology exists; this theory is refuted by a credible tradition that there was a Menorah engraved upon the shield which King David used in wartime.
From the Holocaust to the Israeli flag, what is the deeper meaning of this six-pointed Jewish symbol? by Rabbi Shraga Simmons
