Definitions

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  • noun A hand-to-hand combat system developed by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Etymologies

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From Hebrew קרב מגע, literally ‘contact combat’.

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Examples

  • For instance, Avi Nardia, who has trained Israeli Special Forces as well as militaries and police forces around the world, dropped the name Krav Maga in favor of

    Tablet Magazine 2009

  • In college, I trained in Krav Maga at the Jewish community center.

    Ramona: That's What I Want! Thomas Pluck 2011

  • Kushner's fellow playwright, David Mamet, once wrote an unpleasant little screed, The Wayward Son, which took to task non-Orthodox Diaspora Jews who would rather crack jokes than bones with Krav Maga techniques.

    Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel Ariel Gonzalez 2011

  • In Dushku's episode, airing next Thursday at 10:30/9:30c on FX, the Buffy alum plays Kevin's new Krav Maga instructor after his wife encourages him to work out more.

    Exclusive First Look: Eliza Dushku Gets a Tight Grip on The League 2011

  • So she sends him to a Krav Maga class, and I play the instructor.

    Eliza Dushku Talks The League, a White Collar Return and What Really Matters to Her 2011

  • Kushner's fellow playwright, David Mamet, once wrote an unpleasant little screed, The Wayward Son, which took to task non-Orthodox Diaspora Jews who would rather crack jokes than bones with Krav Maga techniques.

    Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel Ariel Gonzalez 2011

  • He's also taking daily bikram yoga sessions, and learning Krav Maga, a deadly Israeli combat technique taught to high-powered special ops.

    Ashton Kutcher: Training, Paranoid About Real Life 'End Of Days' Jordan Zakarin 2010

  • But Starfleet close-combat training was based on the brutally aggressive, efficient, no-nonsense principles of Krav Maga, originally the old Israeli Defense Force combat system.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • But Starfleet close-combat training was based on the brutally aggressive, efficient, no-nonsense principles of Krav Maga, originally the old Israeli Defense Force combat system.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • I noticed his pistol before his pissbag and I knew then that failure not only had a face but a balding head, too and after two decades of Pan-American boarding passes, target practice and Krav Maga maneuvers in hotel mirrors, the nightmarish pressures of the past that had converged with the greater ones of the future seemed to shrivel into dust.

    Josef, Boy from Brazil 2010

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