sports_martial_arts

Krav Maga

Description

Israeli close-combat system taught in the Israel Defense Forces and, from 1964, to civilians by Imi Lichtenfeld at Netanya; led after his death by federations founded by his and Eli Avikzar's students.

Longest documented lines

  1. 2 generations
    Eyal YanilovEli AvikzarImi Lichtenfeld

Tags

krav-maga

Sources

“Civilian krav maga dates to the 1960s. Again, Imi Lichtenfeld was involved, as were some of his students, to include Haim Zut and Eli Avikzar. In 1964, after retiring from the IDF, Lichtenfeld began teaching krav maga to civilians at a gym in Natanya.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M5H483CZK87194M0J1ZNG9F8
Wikidata

Cite and reuse

CC BY-SA 4.0expand_more
Plain text
Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Krav Maga. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5H483CZK87194M0J1ZNG9F8 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M5H483CZK87194M0J1ZNG9F8, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Krav Maga}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M5H483CZK87194M0J1ZNG9F8}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
data_object JSON-LDdata_object Turtle

Database content on this page is CC BY-SA 4.0; the database right is separately reserved. Licensing