Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS
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.
“This generation of senior command relies on a conceptual world that is severely lacking,” Likud Knesset member Amit Halevi tells JNS.
Rabbi Bentzi Mann had never seen a dead body in his life before Oct. 8. Within 15 minutes of his arrival at the IDF’s Shura Base, he found himself holding one, covered in blood.
Former IAF Commander says the air force and intelligence units are closely monitoring enemy arenas for future “surprises.”
Iran pursuing systematic strategy to arm and support terror groups in Judea and Samaria
Israel has sealed 150 terror smuggling tunnels so far; Egypt cannot be relied upon to prevent new smuggling, observers tell JNS.
At the operational level, the Jewish state proved it can act quickly on intelligence warnings, but most of Hezbollah’s capabilities remain intact.
Observers outline Iran’s strategy of avoiding full-scale war to preserve significant nuclear progress.
A new Defense Ministry pilot for the South includes fortified physical barriers and rapid-response teams.