Photos of Israeli soldiers taken in Operation Cast Lead show them wearing big, floppy hats that look like Chef’s hats.What’s the deal?
They’re for camouflage.
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.
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