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Yaakov Lappin

Yaakov Lappin

Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst. He is the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute; a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center; and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is a frequent guest commentator on international television news networks, including Sky News and i24 News. Lappin is the author of Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet. Follow him at: www.patreon.com/yaakovlappin.

Despite significant degradation, Israeli observers warn that Hezbollah retains the capability for localized cross-border raids.
Iran looks to Russia and China for help as Israeli intelligence closely monitors Tehran’s efforts.
The key to a long-term solution lies in Damascus rather than Beirut via a comprehensive settlement with the new Syrian regime, an expert tells JNS.
Israel is highly coordinated with the United States over its next moves in Gaza, Israeli observers tell JNS.
The move, advocated by JINSA and approved by the Trump administration in 2021, helped lay the groundwork for a historic joint offense and defense.
An Israeli Syrian expert tells JNS that the new regime sees Iran as “a hated enemy.”
IAF hits over 50% of Iranian missile launchers, has flown over 1,000 sorties, hitting nuclear sites, missile production and even Iranian fighter jets.
Israeli strikes have already hit Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan and destroyed the core of the Arak plutonium reactor.
“The Iranian military leadership is on the run,” he says after the IDF killed Iran’s new wartime chief of staff, Ali Shadmani.