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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.
IDF secures Hamas’s “Elite Quarter” in Gaza City; Army chief at Lebanese border: We’re not going back to previous situation.
Israel’s president says responsibility lies “fully with Sinwar” • IDF identifies 1,500 tunnel shafts and underground passages in Gaza so far • Gazan hospital director confesses his facility was a Hamas terror headquarters.
80,000 Israelis displaced from the north; since Oct. 8, Hezbollah has fired over 1,000 munitions at Israel.
The IDF announced three casualties—118 since the ground offensive began—and four seriously injured personnel.
The Israeli military has been planting and detonating explosives in Hamas tunnels, killing terrorists as part of a new technique; Israeli Air Force cooperates with ground forces to hit 500 Hamas targets this week.
The Israeli military is determined to dismantle the Gaza tunnel system, which the terrorist organization has spent 16 years building; more than 50% of Israeli Air Force jets are on standby for the northern threat.
Israeli Navy deploys advanced Sa’ar 6 warship in Eilat after continued Houthi attacks from Yemen; Israeli military: 100,000 Lebanese have evacuated Southern Lebanon.
Of Judea and Samaria, the Israeli Defense Minister says “the arena is secondary to the main effort we are conducting in the Gaza Strip. Similar to what is happening in the north, we have no interest in escalation.”