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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.

Iranian casualties of Syria's civil war are returned to Iran's Kermanshah airport, Aug. 30, 2016. Photo: Farzad Menati via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Israel’s strategic goal in Syria
Israel’s shadow war in Syria is based on the strategic objective of convincing the Islamic Republic that its investment there is going to waste. Iran has so far chosen to weather the strikes and shift tactics without abandoning its Syria project.
Aug. 11, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Turkey headed towards ‘Russian-Chinese axis’ after ejection from F-35 program
“Jerusalem should not upset the applecart with regards to Ankara, and it should preserve the possibility of returning relations to their previous state of a strong military alliance,” said Ofer Israeli, an expert on foreign-policy at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center.
Aug. 8, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Aerospace Industries’s prototype of the Carmel autonomous armored vehicle, powered by artificial-intelligence technology. Photo by Yaakov Lappin.
Israel News
Israel seeks to change the face of the battlefield with AI-powered autonomous armored vehicles
The Carmel future armored vehicle will drive itself, autonomously select and prioritize targets, and control its own unmanned ground vehicles.
Aug. 6, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Fateh-10 ballistic missiles being fired as part of Iran’s “Great Prophet 7” military exercise in July 2012. Credit: Hossein Velayati via Wikimedia Commons.
World News
Iran continues effort to surround Israel with ballistic missiles and hostile forces
Despite U.S. sanctions cracking down on its economy, Iran isn’t giving up its hegemonic aspirations, and is now focused on using Iraq for its purposes.
July 31, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (center) delivers a statement at a conference in Ramallah on Oct. 18, 2014. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Power struggles over ‘day after Abbas’ rage largely under the surface, for now
“Mahmoud Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat, operated in a similar manner, appointing several deputies and preventing any of them from amassing too much power, even encouraging occasional rivalries between them,” said Professor Boaz Ganor, founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya.
July 23, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Pilot trainees celebrate their graduation from Israeli Air Force flight school in a ceremony on June 27, 2019. Credit: IAF.
Feature
Newly graduated IAF navigator ‘realizing a dream’
“Lt. A”, a 24-year-old transport aircraft navigator, describes his unlikely journey to receiving his wings.
July 15, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Palestinian members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, at a rally in Gaza City celebrating the 31st anniversary of Hamas on Dec. 16, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
As Hamas loses tunnels option, terror faction takes to air and sea
Gazan terror organizations are looking into armed drones and sea-based commando cells, while concentrating fire at Israel’s Iron Dome defense system to overwhelm it.
July 11, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Rafael’s SPICE guidance system on-board an F-16 now produced by Lockheed Martin. Credit: Rafael.
Israel News
Israeli defense firms team up with Lockheed Martin to enter US market
IAI-Elta is offering its radar to the U.S. Army’s Patriot system; Rafael is marketing its advanced SPICE guidance kits to the U.S. military.
July 10, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (left), President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades (second from left) and former Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
EastMed pipeline project gains American support, though debate remains over feasibility
The envisioned pipeline would take natural-gas reserves from Israeli and Cypriot waters, and carry them into Greece and beyond.
July 9, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Home Front Command
Israel News
IDF’s Home Front Command creates most precise alert yet
Instead of 255 alert areas, Israel has now been divided into 1,700 areas—meaning that the disruption caused by projectile alerts will be more localized, preventing fear, angst and an unnecessary run to a bomb shelter.
July 5, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Khamenei, Assad
Israel News
Israel prods Iran to conclude that Syria project ‘is just not worth it’
The strikes indicate that Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, were involved in a major new weapons’ development or smuggling project, possibly aimed at giving Hezbollah new precision missile capabilities with which it can target strategic Israeli sites.
July 2, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 9, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
As dispute brews over next defense budget, IDF planning teams prepare for future battlefield
Without a coordinated plan, the military’s build-up would resemble “an orchestra” in which “everyone does what they want, and the noise is terrible,” says Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Sasson Hadad.
June 28, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
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