Recovering from the impact, I focus my eyes on the Krav Maga logo on the instructor’s shorts. The logo consists of two Hebrew letters: the kof for “Krav,” which means combat, and mem for ...

Krav maga, which means “contact combat” in Hebrew, gives the English language a new Israeli term to add to the smattering of such borrowings that already exist, such as “kibbutz,” “pita ...

Krav Maga was developed by Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, Imi Lichtenfeld. In the 1930s, the wrestler and boxer made use of his skills defending Jewish neighbours from anti-Semitic violence in ...

Creator of the Krav Maga self-defense system was from Bratislava Read more Šimon Chyla, a student of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, who created the work, explained that the ...