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| Date founded | 1986 |
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| Country of origin |  Israel |
| Founder | Yossi Sheriff |
| Arts taught | Ninjutsu |
| Ancestor schools | Bujinkan |
| Official website | http://www.akban.org |
AKBAN (光番) is an international educational non-profit martial arts school. The school's name origins comes from the acronyms of Budo Ninjutsu Groups Association in Hebrew.
The AKBAN school was founded in Israel in 1986 as a school based around Bujinkan Ninjutsu. The syllabus has three interlaced areas: Martial art, fitness and Emotion Regulation. Its Ninjutsu syllabus has diversified into Historical European martial arts, MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu systems but it is still koryu and Seishin Teki Kyoko oriented. It is informally identified as simply the organization or Irgun (translation: organization), and trains in Martial arts, emotion regulation, fitness and outdoor skills.[1] Now having 12 dojos in Israel, three in Europe and one in the USA, the school's veterans instruct about several hundred practitioners. It is rated by the Israeli martial arts community as the institution having the longest time to accumulate syllabus for applying for a black belt exam (12 to 13 years) in Israel.[2]
- ^ Newspaper article about Akban search and rescue team(in Hebrew)
- ^ " Yediot (in Hebrew)