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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.

The IDF expects to have the wards up and running in two to four weeks, and is recruiting medical personnel from across the IDF, including from special forces and combat units. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Israel News
IDF expands its role in battle against coronavirus pandemic
The military opens two COVID-19 wards at Rambam Medical Center’s underground level in Haifa and gears up to launch thousands of contact-tracing investigations.
Oct. 5, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the 75th U.N. General Assembly via a video message on Sept. 29, 2020. Credit: GPO.
Israel News
Israel’s exposure of Beirut missile sites a warning signal to Hezbollah
Jerusalem and the IDF hope that Hezbollah internalizes the risk that it would be taking by attempting another border attack, while bringing attention to its use of Lebanon’s embattled civilians as shields for a dangerous industry of guided missiles.
Oct. 1, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli F-16s and German Eurofighter jets fly side by side in the historic Memory For the Future joint flyover in August. Credit: Bundeswehr / Stefan Petersen
Feature
German-Israeli air-force cooperation sheds light on advanced defense system
The state-of-the-art Litening targeting pod was on board German and Israel jets in last month’s historic Dachau flyover, “a statement to the world,” said a business development manager at Rafael’s Electro-Optics Division.
Sept. 23, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz speaks to IDF Home Front Command soldiers on Sept. 14, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Washington for talks to ensure Israel’s military edge
Ofer Israeli, an expert on international relations and the Middle East at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, says Gantz should place Israeli requests for acquisitions of new weapons systems as part of “compensation” for F-35 sales to the United Arab Emirates.
Sept. 22, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
A Simorgh rocket is launched during the inauguration of Imam Khomeini National Space Base in northern Iran, July 27, 2017. Credit: Tasnim news agency via Wikimedia Commons.
World News
Iran’s space-launch vehicle is a concerning breakthrough; its latest ballistic missile is not
Leading Israeli expert Uzi Rubin of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, who pioneered Israel’s Arrow defense systems, explains why.
Sept. 17, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli police and medical personnel at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a road in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on Sept. 15, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Gaza rocket attack on Israel signals alarm by radical camp over normalization agreements
One of Gaza’s armed factions felt it had to “do something” to try and spoil the ceremony, the basis of which threatens the region’s hardline forces, and strengthens the formation of an alliance between Israel and moderate Sunni states.
Sept. 16, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
A IDF soldier and Israel Police do an elbow bump in front of one of the IDF Homefront Command''s coronavirus hotels in Tel Aviv. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Feature
An insider’s look at ‘corona hotels’ operated by IDF Home Front Command
Col. Michael Gilinski, the Jerusalem Home Front Command District Chief of Staff in reserve duty, tells JNS about the process of caring for thousands of infected people and the new bridges the military is building with diverse populations.
Sept. 10, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
A view of the Iron Dome air-defense system. Credit: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
Israel News
Israeli, American defense companies take cooperation to new level in Iron Dome production
Rafael and Raytheon are teaming up to produce missile-defense systems for both the U.S. Army and the Israel Defense Forces, with a senior Rafael representative telling JNS about how this partnership came to pass.
Sept. 8, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Lt. Col. Or Levy, commander of Battalion 334 of the Israel Defense Forces. Credit: IDF.
Israel News
IDF’s precision-rocket battalion prepares for complex battlefield
Battalion 334 held a nighttime drill in which it struck multiple targets simultaneously and practiced a range of highly challenging wartime scenarios, with its battalion commander noting that “we understand that we must be ready for all scenarios.”
Sept. 4, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visiting the Home Front Command's Corona Headquarters. Credit: Jorge Novinski/GPO.
Israel News
IDF’s coronavirus headquarters begins new stage of operations
According to the “traffic light” model, Israeli cities have been divided into red, orange, yellow and green categories with different restrictions applied in light of each locale’s infection rate, as epidemiological testing has begun nationwide.
Sept. 1, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
U.S. and Israeli Air Force F-35 jets take part in an exercise. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Israel News
Second joint US-Israeli F-35 drill creates ‘new level of learning’
The team simulated air-to-air missions against both hostile planes and ground threats, including an array of enemy missile batteries.
Aug. 28, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli soldiers stand near artillery units deployed near the Lebanese border northern Israel on August 26, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Israel News
Hezbollah’s sniper attack: A risky and cynical maneuver
“Our message to Hezbollah is sharp and clear: We will continue to thwart its attempts to gain achievements,” the commander of the IDF’s Galilee Division, Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder.
Aug. 27, 2020
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