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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.

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz speaks to supporters as the results in Israel's national elections are announced at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
Amid unclear results, Blue and White claims election victory
Blue and White Party Knesset member Boaz Toporovsky said “all options are on the table” when it comes to the next government, including a unity government with Likud. “We shouldn’t play this game right now. We should celebrate.”
April 9, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
IRGC
U.S. News
Sanctions on IRGC will be judged by results—and by Iran’s reaction to them
Created as a parallel force to the regular Iranian army after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arms, trains, funds and deploys radical forces across the Mideast.
April 9, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israel's Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz with supporters on election day on April 9, 2019. Credit: Saraya Damiant.
Israel News
‘The atmosphere here is one of a close battle,’ Blue and White elections HQ awaits results
Sources in Benny Gantz’s party welcome a decision by Israel’s Central Elections Committee to count ballots that had been vandalized; accuses Netanyahu of trying to manipulate elections.
April 9, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Gili Yaari and Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
Deciphering the security policies put forth by Gantz, Netanyahu
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz hinted that he would seek major economic investment in Gaza’s civilian economy and infrastructure to stabilize the enclave, and respond to security challenges with far greater force than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has.
April 8, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.
Israel News
Russia positions itself as ‘final judge’ in Syria amid escalating Israeli-Iranian tensions
Moscow has also attempted to play the role of mediator between Israel and Iran, seeking to douse the shadow war raging between them on Syrian soil. Israel, for its part, is determined to disrupt Iran’s plan to turn Syria into a war front against it.
April 3, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Gaza Border Clashes
Israel News
Gaza time bomb keeps ticking, as both sides delay the explosion
The two main scenarios appear to be either a broader Israeli military campaign in response to a new Hamas escalation or a long-term truce that will see Gaza receive large-scale international funds and infrastructure development programs, thereby saving the Hamas regime.
April 1, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli soldiers seen near IDF tanks stationed near the Israeli Gaza border on March 26, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Israel News
Hamas ‘war of attrition’ against Israel’s south could resume on ‘Land Day’
Leadership of the terror group that controls Gaza understands that if it pushes too hard, it will provoke a military operation that could threaten the survival of its regime, say Israeli sources.
March 28, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
View of the snow-covered Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on Jan. 18, 2019. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israel News
Israel’s priority? Making the Golan a residential, agricultural, business and high-tech hub
From Israel’s perspective, a government-led program to begin seriously populating the Golan Heights would go a long way to promoting the national interest.
March 25, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a house in Moshav Mishmeret, in central Israel, that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel News
IDF pummels Hamas after one rocket attack too many
Eleven days after Hamas fired two rockets in the direction of Tel Aviv—in what it claimed was “an accidental” maintenance error—this time, it appears as if the organization’s addiction to gambling and upping the ante to extract concessions from Israel has led it to commit a serious mistake, one that will come with punishing repercussions.
March 25, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli F-35I Adir jets fly in formation. Photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony/U.S. Air Force.
Israel News
Israel has ‘no alternative’ but to rely on force to stop Iran in Syria
Amid reports of renewed Iranian efforts to build a missile production site in Syria, Israel stands alone in its battle to stop Tehran’s expansion.
March 25, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Soldiers with the IDF’s EITAN Unit searching for the remains of missing soldiers. Credit: IDF.
Feature
One Israeli investigator’s determined search to find closure
Maj. (res.) Sharon Maayan has been pursuing a critical mission: to track down the burial places of those in those killed in action in the Jewish state’s wars and military operations.
March 21, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Defense Forces soldiers on the hunt for the suspected terrorist behind the March 17, 2019 terrorist attack outside of Ariel that led to the deaths of an IDF soldier and an a rabbi and father of 12. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Israel News
For Israeli security forces, the ongoing battle against two types of terror
The terror attack outside of Ariel is a reminder of the constant threat of unorganized terrorism—a threat that has not vanished, despite a major drop in such attacks since 2015.
March 18, 2019
Yaakov Lappin
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