Avi Moyal — IKMF Chief Instructor and Curriculum Steward
The Israeli senior instructor who took over IKMF after Yanilov's departure and has carried it through the post-2010 era.
Avi Moyal began training in Krav Maga in the 1980s under Imi Lichtenfeld and Eyal Yanilov. By the late 1990s he was a senior instructor in IKMF; after Yanilov's departure to found KMG in 2010, Moyal became IKMF's Chief Instructor — the position he holds today.
Curriculum work
Moyal's contribution has been less about adding to the system than about codifying it. Under his leadership IKMF restructured its grading manuals, formalized its instructor certification pipeline, and built one of the most internationally consistent training networks in any Krav Maga federation.
Technical signature
IKMF under Moyal is associated with conservative technical execution — preferring proven defenses over experimental variations, and emphasizing the structural correctness of basic techniques (stance, balance, retraction) at higher levels than some federations do.
Why this matters for students
An IKMF school student learns a curriculum that has remained stable for years and is internally consistent across borders. The trade-off is less of the post-2010 technical refinement that KMG has pursued. Both are defensible choices.