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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.

Asio has developed a system called NavGuard to provide drones with their own ability to process video feeds from on-board cameras, analyze their surroundings and convert that information into precise location information. Credit: Courtesy.
Culture and Society
In increasingly crowded skies, Israeli company offers drones a new way of navigating
NavGuard, made by Asio Technologies, started as a navigation system independent of GPS signals in the defense sector; as delivery drones grow, the company is primed for the civilian market.
Sept. 17, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Sept. 13, 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Israel News
Egyptian-Israeli interests align as US reduces aid to Cairo
Egypt plays a critical role in border stability, and its president was keen to underline that fact as the Biden administration withholds military aid from Cairo over human-rights criticisms.
Sept. 15, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Cyber security. Credit: Song_about_summer/Shutterstock.
Feature
The Israeli company quietly securing sensitive smartphones around the world
Unlike its spyware rivals, Assac Networks does not attract global media attention as it quietly keeps companies, governments and security forces in many countries secure from hacking and eavesdropping.
Sept. 14, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
World Trade Center 9/11
U.S. News
Israel and region continue to feel reverberations of 9/11 two decades later
What began as Israeli intelligence assistance against Al-Qaeda grew into larger cooperation against ISIS • Devastating attacks transformed America’s view of international terrorism • Whether Afghanistan again turns into Sunni terror hub an open question.
Sept. 10, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinians demonstrate at the Israeli Huwara checkpoint near the city of Nablus and clash with Israeli security forces in support to the escape of the six Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli prison of Gilboa on Sept. 8, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Israel News
Could Gilboa Prison escape help spark another intifada?
Palestinian security prisoners also broke out of an Israeli prison in 1987, an incident that Col. (res.) David Hacham, a former Arab affairs adviser to Israeli defense ministers, said was one of the catalysts for the outbreak of the First Intifada.
Sept. 9, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on May 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas ‘should be very worried’ by Israel’s maneuver towards Abbas
Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Dangot, Israel’s former Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, tells JNS that the recent meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas creates new options for Israel to decrease future uncertainty. Regarding Gaza, all routes lead to escalation, he warned.
Sept. 1, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Israel News
Mideast terror groups energized by Taliban victory, but not rushing into battle
Prof. Eyal Zisser of Tel Aviv University tells JNS that Hezbollah and Hamas are building on events in Afghanistan for morale but are realistic enough to avoid initiating war with Israel at this time.
Aug. 30, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
The Drone Dome system mounted on a truck. A deomnstration held by Rafael in February 2020 saw laser inteceptions of multiple drones in the desert achieve 100 percent success rate. Credit: Rafael Defense.
Israel News
Growing role, and complexity, of lasers to combat drone threats
“This was once a nice toy for children, and it has now become a precise weapon,” said Meir Ben Shaya in the course of explaining Rafael’s Drone Dome counter-drone system, which features a powerful laser that can shoot down threats up to two miles away.
Aug. 27, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks during a swearing in ceremony for incoming head of the Central Command, Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs held at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem on August 11, 2021. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
As nuclear diplomacy stalls, Israel places military option back on table
The IDF’s Strategy and Third Circle Directorate, which is coordinating the strike option for Iran’s nuclear program, is guided by the concept of “going to the tree trunk, not the fruit” when dealing with a threat as big as Iran.
Aug. 26, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at a rally in Beit Lahiya, the Gaza Strip, on May 30, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas demanding ‘impossible terms’ as deadlock with Israel continues
Col. (res.) David Hacham, a former Arab-affairs adviser to Israeli defense ministers, says any expectation of a significant change in Hamas’s extreme worldview is fantasy; the latest violence is part of a Hamas bid to “change the rules of the equation” with Israel.
Aug. 24, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
A Magen David Adom medical worker takes COVID-19 rapid antigen tests from Israeli kids at a temporary testing station outside the Science Museum in Jerusalem, on Aug. 19, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Israel News
New front line: IDF soldiers assist in pandemic preparations for new school year
A pilot serological study in Bnei Brak found that 16 percent of children had coronavirus in the past. “We are doing our best to be able to open the education system as planned,” says Col. Ariel Blitz, commander of the Dan District in the Home Front Command.
Aug. 19, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Defense Forces soldiers of Tank Battalion Unit 71 near the Syrian border with Israel in the northern Golan Heights, Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
World News
Counter-terrorism expert: ‘Taliban has alliances with Islamist forces in Syria’
Senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Michael Barak said that Al-Qaeda’s propaganda chatter has risen dramatically along with the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Aug. 18, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
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