Imi and his senior instructors formed the first Krav Maga Association in 1978, and in 1992 Imi expressed a desire to make an international federation to help spread his system to the world. In 1995 his dream came true and the International Krav Maga Federation was formed in Netanya, Imis homeplace.

To the present day the style has grown greatly. The IKMF currently has local associations and affiliations in Israel, the United States, France, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, Brazil, Thailand and throughout the world. It is used on a day to day basis by the IDF including the special forces units and the Israeli police and security branches, and by many other elite units in North America, South America, Europe, and around the world. The style has also become, as Imi sought to make it, a major source of civilian self defense instruction.

The IKMF held its first instructor course in Scandinavia in 1996, with participants from Norway, Sweden and Finland. Approx 20 students trained all day for 4 very intense weeks, learning the basics of the system, its self-defense approach and fighting tactics under the watchfull eyes of Eyal Yanilov, the Head Instructor of the IKMF.

Graduating as the first KM trainee from Norway, Rune Lind was given instructor status after the course, and went back to Norway and started teaching in Oslo, and Bodoe. During the year the IKMF-Norway was established to organize Krav Maga training in Norway.

During the following years several instructors from Norway has participated and graduated from instructor training and started to teach Krav Maga in Norway. We have one of only two female instructors in Europe, and our own police training division with trained personel from the police force and national police accademy.

In 1999 the Krav Maga National Training Center was formed in Bodoe and Norway held its first instructor course.

Sadly on Jan 8th 1998, Imi Licthenfeld, aged 88, passed away.

"...so you may walk in peace..."