AKBAN

Akban

The Akban veterans logo
Akban's rose
Also known as	Ha' Irgun, Budo Ninjutsu groups association
Date founded	1986
Country of origin	Israel
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 augments the Turkish word for light and the Japanese word for protection, A.K.A. the "Light guard". It is now used as a two syllable name.

The Akban school was founded in Israel in 1986 as a school based around Bujinkan Ninjutsu. Its syllabus has diversified into Historical European martial arts, MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu systems but it is still koryu and Teki Kyoko oriented. It is informally identified as simply the organization or Irgun (translation: organization), and trains in Martial arts, Meditation, fitness and outdoor skills. Now having 12 dojos in Israel, the school's veterans instruct about 700 undergraduates and veteran students. 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.

The school was founded in 1986 in Jerusalem by a Yossi Sheriff, senior instructor of Doron Navon, the first non Japanese Shihan in Bujinkan Ninjutsu school. Navon started teaching as a Bujinkan Shidoshi in a rural area at 1977. At 1992, in conjunction with Bujinkan Israel the school wrote and directed the first state sanctioned Ninjutsu/Budo Taijutsu instructor's course. In 1995 the Akban School parted ways from Bujinkan Israel while maintaining presence in Hatsumi's Bujinkan events.