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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.

Israel Defense Forces conduct security operations in the West Bank in December 2018. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Israel News
In Israel, the deception of quiet has been shattered. Now what?
Terrorism threatens both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The coming weeks will see whether Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be able to contain an escalating situation and roll back the violence, or whether the region will slide into a new and dangerous phase.
Dec. 13, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Capt. Ayelet Zion, a 25-year-old Israel Defense Force Company Commander in the Home Front Command Search and Rescue Battalion, with Leah Feldman, who served as a signals operator in the 1948 War of Independence. Credit: IDF.
Israel News
Veterans of Israel’s first war share stories of victory and pain
Seventy years later, Israeli army combat officers have been meeting with veterans of the nation’s first war in 1948, who are telling their stories to the soldiers of 2018.
Dec. 12, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
IDF special forces during a training exercise. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Israel News
Through rapid raids, IDF’s special forces to play critical role in future war with Hezbollah
They will be equipped with their own arsenal of high-tech weaponry and can be expected to receive missions to attack the most sensitive enemy targets.
Dec. 7, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
The head of the IDF’s Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoel Strik, meets with UNIFIL Commander Gen. Stefano Del Col of Italy, for a tour of the area of a cross-border attack tunnel from Lebanon into Israel, Dec. 6, 2018. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Israel News
Amid Hezbollah counter-tunnel operations, IDF must be ‘ready for deterioration,’ says ex-defense official
Hezbollah’s special forces, combined with Iraqi Shi’ite militias, were supposed to infiltrate Israel, traveling through the tunnels along various routes on the Israeli-Lebanese border, from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Dov.
Dec. 6, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in June 2016 in Moscow. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.
Opinion
The Russian-Israeli crisis over Syria lacks an exit strategy
It remains unclear whether Russia is willing or able to apply effective pressure on Iran to scale back its military infrastructure construction in Syria, which can later be used to attack Israel.
Dec. 5, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
An Israeli rocket fired at a Hezbollah target during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Credit: Haim Azulay/Flash90.
Israel News
Is Israel weighing strike options in Lebanon?
Hezbollah seems to have interpreted recent developments as a signal of Israel’s determination to enforce its red lines, raising the organization’s concern over what may come next.
Dec. 3, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
An Israeli Air Force search-and-rescue team practicing an extraction during the “Sky Angels” exercise. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Feature
Israeli Air Force holds first-ever combat rescue drill with six other forces
The exercise, dubbed “Sky Angels,” attracted air-force search-and-rescue teams from the United States, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Holland and the Czech Republic.
Nov. 26, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Lt.-Col. Tzachi Revivo, deputy commander of the Meiav Unit, speaking to a Tzofim member at a New York school in October. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Israel News
IDF enlistment officer describes ‘moving encounters’ with North American Jewish youths
The Meitav Unit is primarily focused on the massive task of recruitment, reception and sorting of Israeli IDF cadets, said Lt.-Col. Tzachi Revivo.
Nov. 18, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation following the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza during a press conference in the Knesset, Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
Lieberman’s sudden resignation exposes deep rift over Gaza strategy
Benny Miller, professor of international relations at the University of Haifa, said “this is a classic case of tension between the view of the professional security chiefs, supported by the prime minister, and public sentiments, supported by the defense minister, following a bombing of civilian population by a hostile force.”
Nov. 15, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security consultation in Tel Aviv after the barrage of rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza. Credit: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom.
Israel News
Gaza ceasefire exposes two conflicting narratives among Israelis
For now, the threat from Gaza in the south is less of a force to be reckoned with, as political and military eyes are focused on burgeoning threat from Iran and Hezbollah up north.
Nov. 13, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
A man stands outside a house that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on November 13, 2018. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90
Israel News
Hamas ‘raises the stakes’ with mass rocket assault on Israel’s south
In what they perceive as a calculated risk, terror factions launch a widespread rocket and mortar assault aimed at civilians.
Nov. 12, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Smoke rises after the shelling by tanks in Rafah during a military campaign launched by the Egyptian army against Da'ash (Islamic State) in the northern Egyptian Sinai near the border with the Gaza Strip, on Sept. 16, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
News
Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket assault a reminder of Iran’s long reach
The Israeli Air Force struck nearly 100 targets in Gaza in retaliation. The attack was something that both Iran and the PIJ leadership at its Damascus headquarters wanted, Israeli officials said.
Nov. 8, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
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