Former member of Yaman elite unit where he later became Chief Instructor in hand to hand combat Itay Gil continues to provide his ervices to the Israelie Defence Forces (IDF) as an instructor of anti terrorist units. He is also president of Protect, the leading training and private security service company in Israel, which officially co-operates with the IDF and government agencies. In this work, Itay Gil shows us in detail some of the techniques to deal with knife attacks and threats with gun, which in his 33 years of experience in martial arts he has adapted to the needs of real self defence, both civil and professional.