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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’s attempt to knock out an F-35 base and Hezbollah’s reported attack on an Iron Dome battery reiterate the need to diversify Israeli firepower
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Israel and its partners successfully conducted a complex defensive air battle, leaving Iran in distress.
Israel’s primary post-war goal in Gaza should focus on avoiding the type of thinking that allowed Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault to occur, a senior IDF strategist tells JNS.
Six months into the war, Hamas’s fanatical goals of emerging as the ultimate victor remain in place, Israeli observers tell JNS
While most of Gaza will now be subject to targeted military raids, Hamas in Rafah must still be disbanded in a large-scale ground operation.
The IDF sent its Commando Brigade backed by Merkava 4 tanks and air support to retrieve the corpse of Elad Katzir, whom PIJ murdered in January.
Former IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin: The problem is not Gaza. The problem is Iran.