President &
Founder
Protect is under the leadership and direction of Itay
Gil, who brings with him a lifelong career in
security.
Mr. Gil is an IDF Captain and served in Israel's special
forces paratroops brigade. After completing his compulsory service, he was
chosen to join Israel's elite counter-terror and hostage rescue commando unit,
"Yamam", where he became a career combatant. In the Yamam, Mr. Gil participated
in as many as three missions each day over the course of ten
years.
Mr. Gil has adapted his 33-years of hand to hand and Krav
Maga actual combat study to meet the needs of the real-life situations he faced
in his fourteen years of active duty combat experience. Consequently, Mr. Gil
became the chief close-quarter combat instructor for the
unit.
From 1992-1997 Mr. Gil was the executive director of all
training programs for the Israel Border Police as well as the undercover police
intelligence unit. During this period, he directed training programs for 5000
policemen and security personnel each year.
Mr. Gil continues to serve in the IDF reserves where he
is Captain and senior combat instructor and strategic mission planner for an
elite undercover counter-terrorism team.