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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.

An Israel Defense Forces artillery unit fires towards the Gaza Strip near the border in southern Israel on May 13, 2021. Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90.
Israel News
How the IDF turned Hamas’s tunnels into death traps
Shortly after midnight on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces appeared to give the impression that a ground offensive was underway, sending Hamas operatives into tunnels and the direct path of a massive wave of Israeli airstrikes.
May 14, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Iron Dome anti-missile batteries installed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
Gaza’s terror factions place Iron Dome under new scrutiny
The air-defense system has maintained an interception rate of more than 90 percent, despite the heavy barrages directed at Israeli cities by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
May 14, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
An Israel Defense Forces artillery unit near the border with Gaza on May 13, 2021. Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90.
Israel News
Israel’s options on how to confront Palestinian terror groups in Gaza Strip
As the current firepower of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad demonstrates, Gaza’s factions have not been resting on their laurels in recent years, exploiting a period of quiet to create a domestic industry of weapons production.
May 13, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.
Israel News
Failed Hamas rockets killed Gaza civilians, says security official
“Hamas uses the civil platform to shoot at us. It doesn’t distinguish between civilians and the Israeli army. But we are doing all we can to distinguish between the two components,” the official told JNS.
May 13, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Artillery Corps fire into the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, following heavy rocket and missile barrages into Israel by Hamas and other terror factions, May 12, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
IDF surprises top Hamas military-terror command with deadly strikes
Israeli military kills series of senior Hamas commanders in targeted strikes coordinated with Shin Bet • Gaza terror factions continue to flood Israel with rockets • 21-year-old soldier killed by anti-tank fire • 5-year-old boy dies in Sderot and 18 wounded in Ashkelon.
May 12, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Smoke over Tel Aviv as more than 130 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into central Israel on May 11, 2021. Photo by Matanya Tausig/Flash90.
Israel News
Heavy rocket barrage on central Israel, hitting Tel Aviv, causes fatalities and injures dozens
IAF sends 80 aircraft to destroy 150 rocket-launch pits in Gaza • IDF eliminates senior terror commanders, including heads of Hamas’s rocket unit and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s anti-tank unit • Military assessment: Escalation will only intensify.
May 11, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Smoke seen as a rocket is launched from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, towards Israel on May 10, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas’s destructive gamble to overtake leadership of the Palestinians
After being denied the opportunity for a new power grab through now-canceled elections in the West Bank, Hamas has changed course for an aggressive assault on Israeli civilians and to secure its image as “the defender of Jerusalem.”
May 10, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
The Hezbollah War Museum in Mleeta, Lebanon. Credit: Em Campos/Shutterstock.
Israel News
New reports map out Hezbollah’s missile arsenal, expose new military sites
From short-range Burkan rockets with massive warheads that can destroy buildings to medium-range Iranian Fateh 110 missiles that can reach greater Tel Aviv, the Alma Center sheds new light on how Lebanon is brimming with Hezbollah’s firepower.
May 7, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Supporters of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al-Ahrar movement protest against Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on May 2, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
After Abbas cancels elections, relations between Fatah and Hamas set to deteriorate
Hamas’s aspiration following its forceful 2007 takeover of Gaza is to seize the institutions of the P.A. and the PLO in the West Bank, “thereby achieving total hegemony on the Palestinian arena,” said Professor Boaz Ganor of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Herzliya.
May 6, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi visits the scene of a shooting attack in Tapuach Junction, south of Nablus, on May 3, 2021. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas attempts to set territories on fire, encouraging new wave of attacks
A drive-by shooting in the West Bank was likely unorganized, though the terror group that runs Gaza is seeking to leverage recent tensions to pressure both the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
May 4, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Aerospace Industries sent adelegation to Dubai, seeking local cooperation with government agencies, defense forces, local industries and academic initiatives in order to further expand the company’s activity in the Gulf region. Credit: IAI.
Feature
Dubai conference highlights online security, cooperation with Israel on cyber defense
“We believe the key is joint development and production, and the transfer of knowledge,” said Esti Peshin, general manager of the Cyber Division at Israel Aerospace Industries.
April 29, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinians in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, protest over growing tension in Jerusalem, April 25, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
After days of rockets on southern Israel, Hamas gets an ultimatum
As part of its power struggle with Fatah, Hamas is allowing smaller Gazan terror factions to fire rockets at Israel, though Jerusalem has warned that any escalation will result in firmer retaliation.
April 26, 2021
Yaakov Lappin
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