Ran Nakash
Chief Commander and Head Instructor of the Israeli Defense Force’s Krav Maga instructional division.
The highest ranking professional authority in the following fields:
- The Teaching, instructing and certifying of chosen I.D.F soldiers into Krav Maga instructors.
- Choosing the Krav Maga curriculum of each unit, with an emphasis on Special Forces.
- Fitting specific forms of Krav Maga to each unit’s special needs.
- Creating the curriculum and instruction of the I.D.F’s anti terror school.
- Many more important aspects of this position simply cannot be exposed due to their level of confidentiality.
Head of the Krav Maga division of the Security Center of Israel’s Court System.
Before being appointed as chief commander of the IDF’s Krav Maga instructional division Ran Nakash Headed the Krav Maga division of the security center of the Israeli court system. During his tenor he has taught and certified thousands of special security personal who later on became personal body guards of judges, senators, councilmen and business men.
These personal body guards were trained in 24 hour personal security for V.I.P’s and included: neutralizing threats at home, in a vehicle, at an office, or any other public place, with an emphasis on neutralizing an attacker armed with a knife or gun, multiple attackers, kidnapping attempts and more.
Leading instructor at the IDF’s school for Krav Maga
During his initial service, Ran Nakash instructed at the IDF’s Krav Maga school. Where he worked closely with the IDF’s most elite units and not only trained soldiers in Krav Maga but trained and certified soldiers to become Krav Maga instructors in their own respective units.
Competition Background:
Since the age of 10 Ran Nakash has been trained in various martial art forms with a specialization in Muay-Thai and classic Boxing.
- Some of his accomplishments in the ring are:
- 1st place in Israel’s free style fighting championship
- 1st place in Israel’s full contact karate championship
- 1st place in Israel’s kick boxing championships
- 1997- When Ran Nakash was just 18 years old he came in first runner up in the world Muay-Thai championships which were held in Thailand.
Ran Nakash does not teach the private sector . He does not have a gym or classes. The only people he teaches are soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces and elite international military and law enforcement units who come to Israel in order to get trained by him. The only Krav Maga he teaches is authentic Military I.D.F Krav Maga- the most efficient and up to date Krav Maga in the world.
