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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.

A Palestinian boy wearing a Hamas headband aims a toy gun during a rally after prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, July 28, 2014. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas ‘plotting to repeat Gaza takeover in Judea and Samaria’
Col. Grisha Yakubovich (res.) says Fatah is increasingly adopting the Islamist movement’s rhetoric of promoting armed attacks on Israelis.
Sept. 21, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
A robotic vehicle and a tank maneuver as part of the IDF's International Operational Innovation Conference at the Tze’elim Base in the Negev last week. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Israel News
The IDF is building a networked war machine
The goal is to rapidly and systematically destroy enemy capabilities in built-up areas, and to deliver new capabilities to field units.
Sept. 20, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Hassan Nasrallah
Feature
‘Hezbollah threats amid Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks could spark war’
Analysts tell JNS that Jerusalem must take Hassan Nasrallah’s threats seriously, and explore Iran’s role in shaping its Lebanese terror proxy’s aggressive rhetoric and actions.
Sept. 18, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi (center) visits the site where Maj. Bar Falah was killed in a firefight with Palestinian terrorists earlier that morning, on Sept. 14, 2022. Credit: IDF.
Feature
Israel weighs dilemma of broader security operation in Judea and Samaria
The security deterioration in areas around Jenin and Nablus is forcing Israel to consider new options, as daily shootings become the norm.
Sept. 15, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
An illustration of the Arrow 3 missile interceptor. Credit: Israel Aerospace Industries.
Israel News
Israel to play key role in Germany’s ability to defend against Russian missiles
The Arrow-3 system, made by IAI, can navigate in space to destroy ballistic projectiles before they reenter the atmosphere.
Sept. 14, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Second Lebanon War
Israel News
Hezbollah: Four decades of unprecedented state-sponsored terrorism
As tension again spikes between the Iranian-backed proxy and Israel, observers flag key milestones in the evolution of the most heavily armed terror entity, and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Sept. 12, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Lod Riots, 2021
Israel News
Israel’s new national guard ‘a drop in the ocean,’ says former senior police officer
“The country’s security worldview must include the domestic security agencies—Israel’s ground-level ‘Iron Dome,’” Maj. Gen. Alon Levavi tells JNS.
Sept. 11, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinians attack Israeli security personnel near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, April 13, 2022. Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Feature
Judea and Samaria near ‘tipping point’ into carnage, former IDF officer warns
With the power struggle in the Palestinian Authority in full swing, Israel heading to its fifth election in three years and Hamas waiting in the wings, conditions are ripe for a serious security deterioration, says Arab affairs expert IDF Col. David Hacham.
Sept. 6, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Defense Forces soldiers from the 53rd Battalion of the 188th Tank Brigade are on alert in a military outpost overlooking Syrian villages near the Israeli border, southern Golan Heights on May 23, 2022. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
Israel News
Israel’s gray-zone campaign in Syria makes Iran ‘feel pursued’
Former Air Defense Forces commander Brig. Gen. (ret.) Zvika Haimovich says that no single attack will be decisive in the “never-ending” shadow war raging in Syria between Jerusalem and Tehran.
Sept. 2, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Members of the coed Bardelas Battalion of the Israel Defense Forces. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Israel News
The IDF campaign to prevent smuggling and terrorism along Israel’s longest border
From the start of this year, security forces prevented the smuggling of approximately 300 illegal weapons and 2,150 kilograms of drugs into Israel.
Sept. 1, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
The nuclear threat of Iran. Credit: Stuart Miles/Shutterstock.
Israel News
New deal likely to remove ‘freedom of action against Iranian nuclear infrastructure’
Former Military Intelligence Research Division head Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser tells JNS that overall, “it is clear to me that the current reality of a no-deal is better than a reality with a deal.”
Aug. 31, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 6, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
Senior Islamic Jihad commander was targeted to prevent imminent attack, says IDF
Khaled Mansour was responsible for dozens of attacks on Israeli forces and civilians • Egypt, U.N. mediation efforts unsuccessful • PIJ chief meets IRGC commander in Iran.
Aug. 7, 2022
Yaakov Lappin
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