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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.
The lack of American approval for the export of the system, which was developed with substantial US funding, is behind the delay.
Col. Grisha Yakubovich (res.) says Fatah is increasingly adopting the Islamist movement’s rhetoric of promoting armed attacks on Israelis.
The goal is to rapidly and systematically destroy enemy capabilities in built-up areas, and to deliver new capabilities to field units.
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.
The security deterioration in areas around Jenin and Nablus is forcing Israel to consider new options, as daily shootings become the norm.
The Arrow-3 system, made by IAI, can navigate in space to destroy ballistic projectiles before they reenter the atmosphere.
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.
“The country’s security worldview must include the domestic security agencies—Israel’s ground-level ‘Iron Dome,’” Maj. Gen. Alon Levavi tells JNS.