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Krav Maga

Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy, left, teaches a seminar in New York City, February 16, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 18, 2025, 3:51 am
Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy trains New York Jews in self-defense
Mixed martial arts star teaches seminar for Krav Maga program, part of a larger push for community security training in the wake of Oct. 7
By Luke Tress
Participants train in Krav Maga in Ma'ale Adumim, on June 26, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
July 20, 2024, 11:47 pm
Shaken by the Oct. 7 massacre, some Israelis turn to Krav Maga to learn self-defense
At Moshe Katz’s dojo in his basement in Ma’ale Adumim, men and women roleplay events from the Hamas onslaught to be better prepared for terrorist attack
By AFP
A Guardian Self Defense Krav Maga class in the basement of a Manhattan synagogue, May 21, 2024. (Luke Tress/ JTA)
July 8, 2024, 5:13 pm
NY Jews unnerved by antisemitism and unruly protests take to krav maga for self-defense
Enrollment at classes for the Israeli martial art has soared as a growing fear of violence post-Oct. 7 pushes students to train and seek community with others similarly threatened
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: In this undated photo, students train in Krav Maga through the Legion Self Defense program in New York City. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 19, 2022, 1:09 am
‘Not small, not a victim’: Self-defense program trains US Jews to fight it out
Legion organizes Krav Maga classes, connects Jewish Americans with defense training, as antisemitic attacks remain most common hate crime in New York
By Luke Tress
Law enforcement run with a person on a stretcher at the scene where multiple people were shot, October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
July 2, 2019, 2:09 am
Synagogues are now conducting active shooter drills during services
After gunmen massacre worshipers at Poway and Pittsburgh, US congregations learning how to hide, flee and fight back against attackers
By Ben Sales
Soldiers from the IDF Commando Brigade simulate fighting the Hezbollah terror group, in northern Israel, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 8, 2019, 10:28 pm
IDF finds special forces training unsafe, promises action
Army completes investigation into Commando Brigade’s practices, after soldiers wounded in accidents during exercises
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: The elite Maglan IDF unit. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
August 7, 2018, 3:11 am
2 officers dismissed from elite army unit after training accidents
After 2 Maglan soldiers injured in separate incidents, IDF says it is ‘unacceptable and unprofessional to unnecessarily endanger’ troops during training
By ToI Staff
Yoni Leviatan
February 16, 2018, 3:04 pm
Yoni Leviatan
Gun control only goes so far
I trained in self-defense in Parkland, Florida, no less, and it changed my life
Krav Maga students practicing in Saint Mande, March 23, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
April 2, 2017, 12:34 am
Israeli martial art Krav Maga is trending in Paris
Over the past decade, thousands of French Jews — and some non-Jews, too — have learned to fight amid a wave of intimidation and violence on the streets
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Avi Yemini (Courtesy)
March 14, 2017, 11:24 pm
Caller threatens to kill Melbourne Jewish gym owner
Message for former IDF soldier Avi Yemini brands him a ‘f**kin’ Jew’ and tells him to ‘get out of the country‘
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)
September 3, 2016, 6:56 pm
IDF training troops in non-lethal measures against attackers
New program aims to help combat soldiers deployed in West Bank address the ‘changing nature of threats’ facing security forces
By ToI Staff
Lehava summer camp 2016 (Screen capture: Ynet)
August 30, 2016, 2:59 pm
In Jewish extremist camp, youths learn to withstand Shin Bet grilling
Exposé of summer course run by right-wing Lehava organization shows military-style training, courses on how to keep Arabs from dating Jews
By ToI Staff
Soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade seen during Krav Maga training at the Regavim Army base on April 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 14, 2016, 4:47 pm
After MP’s murder, UK lawmakers turn to Israeli martial art
British members of parliament study Krav Maga, learning how to disarm and then flee from potential attacker
By Raoul Wootliff
British author Tim Samuels. 'The mantra of the book for me was male honesty and candor.' (courtesy)
May 23, 2016, 9:03 am
British author writes humorous guide for men seeking masculinity
In ‘Who Stole My Spear?’ Tim Samuels discusses almost coming to blows at synagogue, and how 10 days of Krav Maga in Israel nourished his manliness
By Jenni Frazer
Soldiers from the IDF's Golani Brigade seen during Krav Maga training at the Regavim Army base on April 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
May 19, 2016, 2:38 pm
From the IDF to Hollywood: Krav Maga’s meteoric rise
The Israeli close-combat method shoulders its way into civilian life as the ultimate form of self-defense
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU and SARA PUIG
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