IDF Chef Hats
I was watching the news when I noticed some Israeli soldiers were wearing silly looking chef hats. Turns out there is a reason..
The hat—called a mitznefet in Hebrew—attaches to a regular combat helmet and obscures its rigid, round shape. As the mitznefet flops about, it takes on an irregular form that’s harder to recognize in a shadow or out of the corner of your eye. The hat also protects against the sun and the moon, which might reflect off the surface of the helmet. A standard mitznefet consists of reversible mesh fabric, with a greenish woodland camouflage print on one side and a brown desert print on the other… [Source]
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Jan 8, 2009
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15 Comments, add your own...
1. jo | January 8th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
lol i love your humour
2. HeartBeat | January 8th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
even Hizbullah was wearing these during their last war with Israel. I always wondered what is it.
3. HeartBeat | January 8th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I guess that was their strategy of confusing the Israelis.
4. Nobu | January 8th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I always thought it was some kind of a built-in gas mask that you can drop on your face when needed. Thanks for the info.
5. Bu Yousef | January 8th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I thought it was their own body bag?
6. miss ghesquiere | January 8th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
wow. this is the only thing you found worthy of a post?
7. Mark | January 8th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
yup, I am not going to talk politics here.
8. rustleg | January 9th, 2009 at 12:37 am
hm, this seems like a nice, modern replacement for the ghutra.
9. Cerebral Assassin | January 9th, 2009 at 1:22 am
lol,u can cut the tension with a knife :P
10. Lexicon | January 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
miss ghesquiere: so you actually took time to write somethin as useless as that? its his fuckin blog, he is not your daily royal jester ffs
11. GIendale | January 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Mark, if your not going to talk politics then why do you bring up this subject as you know its sensitive? nearly 800 people are killed so far, whether or not you dont talk politics you have an obligation to protest as an Arab
12. Mark | January 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
IDF Chef Hats is not a political subject.
800 people got killed in 2 weeks? Why didn’t you come in here last month and nag on me to post something about the 400 civilians in Congo who were massacred in a single day? http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/30/congo.xmas.massacre/index.html What about all the Iraqi civilians who were massacred in Iraq, they’re Arabs also no? There are hundreds of people dying every day (including Arabs) so you either give a fuck about all of them or don’t.
Whats hilarious are the idiots who post that Hitler should have finished them all off. Now Hitler is a role model, their hero. Fucking losers have no clue what Hitler would have done to them as Arabs.
Anyway you’ve made me talk politics now which I didn’t want to do so it all ends here. Anyone who comments anything related to Gaza, or Afghanistan or Iraq or whatever other war or killings thats taking place will get their comments deleted. If you want news go to cnn.com (if you think they’re Zionists go to bbc.com) but please don’t come here and expect me to write about it.
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13. gilly | January 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Chef hats lol…creative. Yeah I always wondered what those hats were for…
Its name sounds kinda funny too…mitznefet
Like someone smacked the keyboard…kweudcbfv
Also, I don’t get how this is a political post too…
14. TweeZ | January 9th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
lol @ GIendale
9ij ma3indik salfa
15. TweeZ | January 9th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
back to the helmet,
i still think it looks silly
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