Kapap

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Kapap

Palmach soldiers practicing Kapap stick-fighting
Focus	Hybrid martial arts
Country of origin	Israel
Olympic sport	No

Kapap (Hebrew: קפ"פ, קפא"פ‎), often written KAPAP, a Hebrew acronym for Krav Panim el Panim (lit. face-to-face combat), is a close-quarter battle system of defensive tactics, hand-to-hand combat and self-defense.^[1]