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Yaakov Lappin

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Yaakov Lappin is a military and strategic affairs analyst, specialising in Israel’s defense establishment, and the country’s strategic environment. He is an Associate Researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and the Israel correspondent for Jane’s Defense Weekly and the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS.org). Lappin is a guest commentator on international TV and radio outlets, including Sky News, BBC World Service, and I24.

Yaakov Lappin's articles

Mandate100 | The Year 1939: Why did Britain Abandon the Two-State Solution on the Eve of World War Two?

By Yaakov Lappin
 Using documents in the National Archive, including German documents photographed and sent to Whitehall by an American spy,... Read more > June 2020

As economic crisis worsens, Iran threatens to reactivate nuclear programme

By Yaakov Lappin
 In this essay, military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin analyses the rationale behind the US ‘maximum pressure’ campaign,... Read more > June 2019

‘The War Between Wars’: Israel vs Iran in Syria

By Yaakov Lappin
 Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In... Read more > october 2018

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