Krav Maga Defined

Krav Maga (Hebrew: קרב מגע‎, lit. contact combat) is a military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, which assumes no mercy will be given, and emphasizes maximum threat neutralization in a "real life" context. It came to prominence following its adoption by various Israeli Security Forces.

The word maga (מגע) means "contact" or "close" and the word krav (קרב) means "combat". It refers to combat involving physical contact as opposed to combat using a weapon from afar.