Tembel hat

tzabarim, and Israeli youth movements.^[2][3] In Israeli cartoons it is still used to symbolize the typical Israeli (e.g., the cartoon character Srulik).^[2] Tembel hats were most notably produced by the ATA textile company.^[4]

Ottoman word "tembel" which means lazy.^[7][2] The Tembel's shape is the same as the pileus, the hat adopted by freed slaves in Greek and Roman antiquity and adopted as a symbol of freedom at the time of the French Revolution. The ancient pileus survived in Albania in the early 20th century and may have influenced the leaders of the Second Aliyah, who adopted the hat.^[8]