Major Avi Nardia is a former intelligence team member of the Yamam, Israel’s premier counter-terror (takeover) unit, equivalent to the U.S. Delta Force and F.B.I. Counter Terror units. He is a member of the intelligence team and the instructor of CQB - Defensive Tactics (known in Hebrew as Kapap – Krav Panim Le Panim. )

In his 24 years of experience, he served in the Israeli army (IDF), in the Lebanese War (1982), where he earned the military rank of Major, and he trained Armed Forces all over the world, including SWAT, SRT, SERT teams from patrol police to special forces, corrections officers, Army and Marine units and counter terror units. In Israel, he taught defensive tactics and operational behavior at the Operational Police Academy, which is charged with training the entire police force of the country. To this day, he is a CQB trainer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Reserves, as well as a Reserve Police Sniper.

Left: Jujitsu Rank Certificate - 7th Dan - December 2009