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Avi Moyal |
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| Avi Moyal, IKMF's chairman and head instructor was born in 1966 and has been learning Krav Maga since
childhood. In 1985 he received his "Expert degree" and joined the IDF
Marines, completed his Officers training with excellence, and served as
a Platoon Commander in a Terror Demolition Unit. He acquired many
combat hours and experience while commanding subordinates on special
operations in Lebanon. He served as a Reserves PC in a special
operations unit.
Avi Moyal graduated his BA and a trainer's course. He also
graduated the senior trainer's course in the Wingate Institute with
excellence. He ran instructors courses in the Wingate institute for
many years, and today he is one of the four leading Krav Maga
authorities in the world (Expert level 5). Amongst his instructors were
Imi Lichtenfeld RIP, Eli Avigzar RIP and Eyal Yanilov. He instructs
women, children and adults in the Israeli private, commercial and
governmental sectors. He also instructs armies and security
organizations world wide. These days, he has published a booklet about
Krav Maga for grade school pupils, which is one of his areas of
expertise. It is distributed across Israel, and it will soon be
translated and published abroad.
Special Projects:
- In
1993 Avi served with a group of security personnel - that were assigned
as the pop star Michael Jackson's personal bodyguards in his visit to
Israel.
- In 1994 he founded a VIP Protection unit for a private body in Brazil.
- In 1995 he was assigned by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office to train its workers in Krav Maga.
- In
1996, after numerous homicides and attempted hijacking and robbery of
taxi drivers in Israel, Avi Moyal was at the head of a project that
instructed taxi drivers in self-defense and active "skid-car" handling.
After the course, the numbers of attacks have depleted drastically.
- In
1998, was an era of attacks by the infamous rapist - Beni Sella.
Amongst his victims were tens of young Tel-Aviv women. Prior to his
apprehension, Tel-Aviv City-Hall recruited Avi Moyal to lead a project
that will train the Tel-Aviv women in self-defense. The course was
highly successful, and it taught hundreds of women to defend themselves
from sexual assault using everyday items. In the end of that year, Beni
Sella was caught, prosecuted and incarcerated.
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work with Tel-Aviv City-Hall, after a few cases of violence, he ran a
self-defense course for the city's parking inspectors. This course was
considered a success.
- Nowadays Avi and his wife have three
children, and he is the owner of the "Contact©" company, which runs
seminars, workshops and courses for the private and public sectors.
Today, from the position of IKMF's chairman and head instructor Avi spreads the Krav Maga system to all over the world, as well as to different armies and special units across Europe. He also continues
teaching his many pupils in Israel.
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