Israeli Camouflage Shirt.....Unusual Pattern

Are there any tags in it?

A size tag only. Size 40 and some other Hebrew writing.

I recently got one its a bit darker in color



I believe vonstuck may have some info on the shirt, he posted a picture of it in my acquisitions thread, I have some pictures there of the tags but no other info on it.

I seem to recall the Israeli helmets had covers made in this pattern.
Chris

Beautiful shirt arch.

I think they were issued to troops in the early 70's, but they don't look to be that old.
Still is definitely israeli shirt.

great item

cheers

Somewhere on this forum are pictures of Israelis wearing this pattern, but the pictures are of low quality.

Nice finds, both of you guys!

Steve

Does anybody have any more information regarding this pattern? Not to gloat but I the guys working on the militaria show are really interested and kind of need more info regarding it before making a decision.

The first thought I had when I saw it was either made for the Entebbe Raid or it's for clandestine operations outside of Isreal itself. Whether for use in Lebanon or Africa would be anyones guess.

ugh... the mystery deepens even more. Why is there few to no reference material for this pattern

Did that lighter coloured left-hand shirt come from a Thai seller? I remember seeing it but it didn't twig that it might have been Israeli ... good score!

My guess would be that it was made for covert operations to emulate one of the vertical lizard pattern the Syrians and Egyptians were wearing in the 1970/80s.

An associate of mine did a lot of backpacking in his university days during the early '80s. On one of many trips he sojourned through Israel and picked up these. Going through different countries he collected camo like other people collected postcards or teaspoons. I'm not even sure whether he still has these but I managed to get a picture of it back then ...



Unfortunately all I have is this picture, so don't bother asking about tags, stamps, or material composition or weight

But at least you might have been interested to know that pants DID indeed exist in this pattern!

I just found these photos on the international movie weapons database. They are from a French film entitled "Pour Sacha", they are supposed to be Syrian soldiers facing off against Israeli paratroopers, I think their uniforms look familiar.

I just got my hands on one, it seems almost identical to all of the other dark colored shirts here. Mine seems to show some pretty obvious wear, though. Note on the back where the ink seems to have run out.

Is this the uniform worn by the Golani Brigade back in the 80s'.I always have an image of them doing their version of the Recces in South Africa
These images are beautiful

I have a cap in this strange Israeli lizard pattern.








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Got the shirt and I have matching pants somewhere, but I can't find them.