The Haganah system ("Defense system" in Hebrew) is based on the Israeli Defense Force's combat training. It is also known as Krav Maga.It claims to be not only a martial art, but a method for enabling someone at a disadvantage to overpower a larger adversary. The system's main goal is to have the combatant enter a "point of reference." This point is a lock/grab around the neck, and the back of the aggressor. Because of this "point" the combatant is focused and already has a plan instead of relying on fancy manuvers that take time to apply, and difficult to learn. Plain well placed counterstrikes are applied to defeat the adversary. In addition to hand-to-hand combat and ground-fighting, Haganah applies defenses against knives, guns, and multiple weapons and attackers. Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... Combat, or fighting, is purposeful conflict between one or more persons, often involving violence and intended to establish dominance over the opposition. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... traditional Scandinavian puukko knife A knife is a sharp-edged hand tool used for cutting. ... Look up Gun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A gun is a mechanical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air. ...

Techniques that Haganah covers include defense against punches and kicks, escapes and releases from chokes, bear hugs, hot weapons, firearms such as automatic weapons, grenades, and multiple attackers. Haganah also covers various hand-to-hand combat techniques such as multiple types of arm blows, and different types of low kicks to the legs, executed with or without shoes.

There are some ground survival techniques including combat-neutralizing grappling techniques, pinching, tendon and muscle tearing, and for specialized or advanced trained, tactical knife fighting, combat shooting and counter-terrorist strategies and techniques. A tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue, attached on one end to a muscle and on the other to a bone. ... A top-down view of skeletal muscle Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. ... For historical and popular terms referring to violence (especially against civilians, whether prominent or not) that is insignificant in terms of military tactics but aimed at undermining morale, see Terrorism. ...

See also

• Haganah