He is best known for helping to popularize Krav Maga, the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israel Defense Forces.
[1] Levine, who graduated from Loyola Law School, has worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County since 1991.
Mason was sentenced to life imprisonment, ending one of the longest unsolved cases in the United States.
[citation needed] In 1981, Levine was selected as part of the first group outside of Israel to train in Krav Maga.
At the time, Levine was the highest ranking instructor in the United States,[7][specify] and had training centers in West Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Philadelphia.