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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 Israeli worker stands outside the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem that was converted to receive coronavirus patients, March 19, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
IDF Home Front Command opens hotels for patients recovering from COVID-19
The newly converted recovery center can hold up to 500 patients, placing one in each room, but if the situation calls for it, another 500 people can be housed there.
March 19, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli border police wear protective gear and masks at the Ein Yael Checkpoint, near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, March 11, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Israel News
How Shin Bet, Israel Police will use tracking technology to battle new enemy: COVID-19
Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman stated that his organization has “answered the request of the professional echelon in the Health Ministry, out of national responsibility and an understanding that we have the ability to save the lives of Israeli citizens.”
March 18, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett meets with defense officials to discuss new protocols regarding Israelis who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, COVID-19. Credit: Naftali Bennett via Facebook.
Israel News
IDF takes emergency steps to protect health of soldiers and civilians alike
The defense establishment’s role is twofold: to ensure that the disease does not harm its readiness and to assist civilian systems to cope with the pandemic.
March 15, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks at a ceremony on February 11, 2020. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90
Israel News
IDF steps up preparations to battle new foe: coronavirus
More than 2,200 soldiers in isolation • IDF bans handshakes; restricts civilian access to bases.
March 11, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
A view shows the rubble of buildings following Russian airstrikes on the outskirts of Maaret Misrin town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on March 5, 2020. Photo by Ali Syria/Flash90 Photo by Ali Syria/Flash90.
Israel News
Has Syria reactivated its chemical-weapons program? Recent strikes might provide a clue
If Israeli airstrikes did target a chemical-weapons site, then it would be a sign that the Syrian regime has returned to its wicked ways, Syria analyst Professor Eyal Zisser tells JNS.
March 10, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade take part in a training drill in HaMetsuda Garden, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat on March 8, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Feature
In preparing for future battlefield, IDF focuses on speed and lethality
The new Tnufa (“Momentum”) multi-year program recognizes that Israel’s enemies, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and Shi’ite militias, have been upgrading their ability to threaten the Jewish state.
March 6, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Graduating officers at a ceremony at the Israel Navy's main Haifa Naval Base, Sept. 4, 2019. Credit: Flash90.
Israel News
Israel Navy’s ‘startup’ department develops ship combat systems in record time
Student-soldiers in their early 20s in Israel are charged with upgrading essential systems and holding joint trials with their counterparts in Western militaries who are in their 50s and 60s, making for some “intergenerational meetings.”
Feb. 27, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Smoke trails from rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza City on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Ail Ahmed/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas fails to curb Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has no interest in stabilizing Gaza
Following recent rocket fire, Israel cannot tolerate “the rules of the game” that PIJ is trying to impose on it, and the objective of reaching a long-term “understanding” with the main terrorist group, Hamas, is looking increasingly distant.
Feb. 24, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
An Israel Defense Forces' soldier serving as part of a new all-female tank crew as part of the Border Array Units. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Israel News
IDF’s pioneering all-women tank crews to provide protection of Israel’s south
The new crews will serve in Israel’s main battle tank, the Merkava MK 4, which has active protection systems that intercept incoming anti-tank missiles and RPGs—just the type of weapons that adversaries like ISIS are armed with in the Sinai Peninsula.
Feb. 19, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
View of an Iron Dome air-defense missile system in central Israel installed following tensions with Syria and in Israel’s south, Jan. 25, 2019. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Israel’s upgrade of Iron Dome another blow to the enemy’s desire to target civilians
Air defense is only a part of the Israeli military’s security initiatives. The wider response is based on a rapid ground maneuver into enemy territory to destroy systems firing on civilians
Feb. 14, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Former Israeli defense official calls for joining of US and Russia to roll back Iran’s influence
Professor Rear Adm. (ret.) Shaul Chorev, former director-general of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, tells JNS that new types of diplomatic action could help prevent Tehran from turning Syria into a new battle front against Israel and expanding its influence across the region.
Feb. 12, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
The Israel Defense Forces’ Commanding Officer of the “Efraim” Regional Brigade, Col. Yiftach Norkin, the Commanding Officer of the “Judea” Regional Brigade, Col. Itamar Ben Haim, and troops from the scene of the pursuit after the assailant who committed the car-ramming attack, Feb. 6, 2020. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Israel News
Amid a spate of Palestinian attacks, Israel’s security forces seek to prevent an explosion of violence
So far, the succession of incidents appears to be unorganized, with each terrorist incident prompting another in a chain reaction, even in areas like Jenin, which has been quiet for years.
Feb. 6, 2020
Yaakov Lappin
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