Yaron Lichtenstein

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Grand Master Yaron Alexander Lichtenstein is the highest ranked Krav-Maga master living today 2006 and he is the only one of all of Imi Lichtenfeld's students which received this ranked personally from the Krav-Maga creator and founder. Yaron Lichtenstein was born in 1953 in the city of Rehovot, Israel, and started his Krav-Maga studies at the age of 13. he fought in the war of Yom-Kipur, were he was bedly wounded and captured by the Egyptian army. He was released after three month . in the year of 1977 Yaron founded the first school of krav-maga in the world - BUKAN. In 1988 and 1994 Yaron and Imi published the first two complete books of Krav-Maga. After Imi's death in 1998, Grand Master Yaron Lichtenstein remained the only man who still follows the complete way of the Israeli Krav-Maga, as created by the founder.