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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: A fifth of all Hamas, PIJ rockets have fallen in Gaza • Hamas “trying to activate cells in Judea and Samaria” • Israeli Defense Minister says war will establish “new security order” in Gaza.
U.S. warship intercepts projectiles off Yemen, as drone strikes on American bases in Syria and Iraq join ongoing Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Lebanon.
The reported Israeli strikes on airports in Damascus and Aleppo on Oct. 12 prevented 10 tons of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles reaching the country from Iran, according to Israeli media.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that Hamas terrorists have two options: Be killed or surrender unconditionally.
Commanders responsible for massacres and death squad raids are being eliminated; IDF has launched some 3,600 airstrikes so far, with the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence Directorate assisting.
IDF Spokesman repeats calls for Gazans to evacuate southward, and dismisses reports that Israel bombed a convoy of Gaza evacuees as “fake news.”
Former Israeli national security adviser: We are towards the end of the beginning; This is a war against an enemy state called Hamastan.
IAF jets hit Hamas’s Nuhba terror commandoes hard as hundreds of thousands of Gazans head south.