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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.
Turkey has replaced Russia as the dominant power in Syria, a prominent expert tells JNS.
“These are the things that disrupt Hamas the most,” a senior former IDF officer tells JNS.
Isolated and weakened, the Lebanese terrorist group has decided to keep a low profile and hope for the storm to pass, observers tell JNS.
Former operations officer in IDF Gaza Division: In the last two months, the terrorist group sought to rearm itself and prepare for the next round.
“We are prepared for attacks from Houthis and Iran,” a former Israeli official tells JNS.
Israel is accelerating deployment of the revolutionary Iron Beam laser system, which is expected to be operational by the end of the year.
The massacre of Alawites highlights the danger of radical Islam’s rise to power, Israeli officials and analysts warn.
The scale and nature of the IDF’s ongoing counterterrorism campaign in Judea and Samaria indicates an overall shift of Israel’s approach in the sector.