Ephod Combat Vest

Ephod Combat Vest
Israeli female recruits wearing the late-model version of the IDF Ephod combat vest, May 2002.
TypeLoad-bearing equipment
Place of originIsrael
Service history
Used bySee Users
WarsOperation Entebbe
1978 South Lebanon conflict
Angolan Civil War
1982 Lebanon War
Lebanese Civil War
1978-79 Nicaraguan Revolution
Salvadoran Civil War
Guatemalan Civil War
Internal conflict in Peru
Sri Lankan Civil War
First Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada
Syrian Civil War
Rwandan Civil War
Cenepa War
Kosovo War
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Dinnieh clashes
2013 Sidon clash
Bab al-Tabbaneh–Jabal Mohsen conflict
2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
2006 Lebanon War
2007 Lebanon conflict
2008 conflict in Lebanon
Battle of Gaza (2007)
Gaza War (2008–09)
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
Production history
DesignerRabintex Industries Ltd
Designed1970s
ManufacturerRabintex Industries Ltd
Hagor Industries Ltd
Israeli Weapons Ltd
Marom-Dolphin
Johsen Equipment Company (Singapore)
Produced1976-Present

The Ephod Combat Vest, also designated variously the A10 Model Infantry Load-bearing Rig, Individual Carrying Equipment, and "New style" Load Bearing Equipment, is a personal equipment system issued to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of the State of Israel since the mid-1970s. It replaced the modular-based 1950s "Old style" tan-khaki cotton canvas equipment (similar in design to the British Army's 58 pattern webbing) and a variety of load-carrying waistcoats and assault vests used by Israeli infantry and elite units during the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1967-1970 War of Attrition, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[1][2]

  1. ^ Laffin & Chappell, The Israeli Army in the Middle East Wars 1948-73 (1982), p. 12.
  2. ^ Katz & Volstad, Israeli Elite Forces since 1948 (1988), p. 57.