Krav Maga was invented in the 1930s by Imre Lichtenfeld who had experience in boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics. This was around the time when nationalistic socialist parties (Nazis) were kicking off, and Imre himself had enough of it. Him and some other boxers and wrestlers took to the streets to defend other Jewish people from the rising threat of anti-Semitic thugs. In this time, he learned that fighting in matches was very different than fighting on the street. In martial arts, wrestling, and boxing, these sports are built around rules. In war, there are no rules. Imre both learned and helped others a lot during this period, but he was forced to seek refuge from his home country Czechoslovakia and from Europe all together.

Imre used this knowledge to train Haganah, a paramilitary organization that later became the Israel Defense Forces, in this style. He literally trained the elite special forces units of Israel today just to teach refugees how to defend themselves from the local Arabs. Imre later named this series of self defense moves "Krav Maga". This isn't the end of the story, as Israel itself was established as a state in the 1940s. Imre himself, of course, became head of the Krav Maga teaching in the IDF, which was formed shortly after. Throughout the years of teaching, he had refined his new martial art by making it as practical as possible.

To give you an idea of what he's added, Judo was incorporated into Krav Maga and even different grades were now given for each level of knowledge (white belt, yellow belt, black belt, etc). His first black belt student, Eli Avikzar, would earn a brown belt in Aikido, and later included Aikido itself into Krav Maga. Eli also established Israeli Krav Maga Association (IKMA, or some people call it KAMI because dragon ball) so that it could be seen as a genuine martial art.

Both ELI and Imra may have retired, but their spirit lives on. Krav Maga has been taught far and wide by different military forces around the world. This includes the bad-asses like the British SAS and the United States Marine Corps to even people that might not ever use it like the United States Air force. That's why I think the name should be changed to Jew-Jitsu.

It's so widely used and famous, but you probably wouldn't of even known that it was Jewish until now. It's become so ingrained into military across the world that it's seen as a necessity to learn if you want to be in any special forces unit, so why isn't this common knowledge? It's for the same reason why nobody ever asks the origins of Aikido, Judo, or Taekwando. People just accept that it's there and never question it. This isn't bad, it's just that all those names don't leave anything to the imagination quite like my proposal, Jew-Jitsu.

The "Jew" in the name would tell people immediately that this was created by Jews, for the protection of Jews, an art dedicated to self defense and protection of not only themselves but others.

The "Jitsu" in the name would also say that this art is steeped into other martial arts to create the most practical style while also paying respect and homage to those styles in which their moves are used.

I hope you see my reasoning here.

As so it is written, when god asked Imra for protection, he politely declined saying;

"My enemies will need you to protect them from me."