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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 Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
News
Iran’s activities could ignite a dangerous fire
Iran’s latest efforts to traffic advanced weaponry to its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah led to a potentially major incident between Israel and Russia.
Sep. 20, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
A group of Israel Defense Force cyber cadets during a training exercise. Credit: IDF.
Israel News
‘Enemy cyber threat growing,’ warn security experts amid Hamas cyber attacks
Many tools and all kinds of tactics are available these days, leaving vigilance and awareness the most important lines of defense.
Sep. 17, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Hamas members take part in a rally marking the Palestinian terror group’s 29th anniversary in Gaza on Dec.16, 2016. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
How feasible is a long-term truce with Hamas?
While it remains far from clear that such an arrangement is even feasible, Israel is giving Egyptian mediation efforts a chance.
Sep. 16, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Planes at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. Photo by Francisco Anzola/Flickr.
Israel News
Tehran’s use of Beirut airport to smuggle arms is major threat to region
Iranian weapons factories churn out powerful missiles and rockets before the Islamic Republican Guards Corps usually flies them to Syria.
Sep. 7, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Soldiers with the IDF's new Gideon Brigade combat team, which mixes battalions from the different branches of the IDF’s ground forces—the armored corps, the infantry, and the engineering corps—to create an unprecedented level of battlefield cooperation, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the army. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Israel News
‘We’re in a race against our enemies,’ says IDF tank battalion commander
A recent combat exercise mixing battalions from the different branches of the IDF’s ground forces included live-fire drills, urban-warfare simulations and fighting in open spaces.
Sep. 4, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Israel Military Industries’ surface-to-surface Romach (“spear” in Hebrew) rocket. Credit: IMI.
Israel News
IDF ground forces to acquire more precise rocket firepower
The Israel Air Force could also benefit from the development, as it will help free it up for rapid responses to other threats on multiple fronts.
Aug. 28, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
IDF Soldier
Feature
How an injured skateboarder became an Israeli navy submarine officer
The experience of getting back on his feet helped him gain the mental fortitude that he would later call upon to complete a grueling Israel Navy training course and become a submarine officer—one of the most sensitive and critical roles in the Israeli military.
Aug. 14, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Members of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades attend the funeral of six Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades fighters at a cemetery in Deir Al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza, May 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas is taking the region to the brink of war
Hamas’s leadership is dangling the option of a long-term truce before Israel with one hand and firing barrages of rockets at southern Israel with the other, terrorizing hundreds of thousands of Israelis and risking the security of the Gazan civilians it rules over.
Aug. 9, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a meeting in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Jan. 7, 2016. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
News
Hamas-Israel truce would be like a ‘painkiller, not an antibiotic,’ say observers
All of the economic benefits being offered to Gaza as part of a package deal—an improvement in the water and electricity supplies, the construction of a seaport, the cancellation of debts owed by the Hamas government, a relaxation of the Israeli security blockade—hinge on an agreement.
Aug. 7, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
The Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat, May 15, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Feature
Patient preparedness: Israeli hospitals drill the transition from ‘routine to war’
During one exercise, the medical center practiced receiving 50 patients injured by enemy fire while the city sustained rocket barrages. All the while, the hospital experienced power failures and infrastructure crashes as part of the simulation.
Aug. 3, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
IDF video surveillance operators with the Border Defense Array unit. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.
Feature
IDF Border Defense Array, which is ‘the most familiar with the enemy,’ set to expand
Video surveillance operators are part of the wider IDF Border Defense Array, which was established a year ago, swallowing up the older Combat Intelligence Collection Corps and adding several other units to it, such as mixed-gender border-defense battalions and Bedouin scouting units.
Jul. 30, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
A David's Sling missile being launched. Credit: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
Israel News
Israel’s newest air-defense system makes its debut
David’s Sling is designed to shoot down an array of threats: heavy rockets, cruise missiles, drones, short-range ballistic missiles and evasive airborne threats that maneuver as they fly.
Jul. 26, 2018
Yaakov Lappin
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