Yaakov Lappin
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Morocco buying ‘both defensive and offensive’ capabilities from Israel (opens the original)
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Morocco’s rapidly expanding defense-procurement relationship with Israel reflects a broader regional realignment tied to the Abraham Accords, a Western observer has told JNS, as Israeli defense companies prepare to showcase their systems at next week’s Marrakech Airshow. The airshow runs from Oct. 7 to Oct. 10 at the Royal Moroccan Air Force Base in Marrakech. Addressing Morocco’s growing acquisition of Israeli defense technology, the observer said Rabat is buying across the board, “buying both
'Pickaxe Mountain site must disappear or be incapacitated' (opens the original)
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Iran is working to convert its fortified Pickaxe Mountain tunnel complex into a substitute uranium enrichment site to replace facilities destroyed at Fordow and Natanz, Brig. Gen. (res.) Prof. Yaakov (Jacob) Nagel, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the former head of Israel’s National Security Council, told JNS on Thursday. Following international media and think tank reports of movement and construction work at the deep underground site, known in
Saudi Arabia’s request for help from Israel is ‘an opportunity’ (opens the original)
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The Iranian-backed Houthi movement’s lightning seizure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Yemen’s Red Sea coastline, along with its drone and missile strikes deep inside Saudi Arabia, has pushed Riyadh into an unprecedented posture of potential quiet dependence on Israeli intelligence. Alongside the Houthi attack, which threatens Saudi shipping and oil exports through the Red Sea, Iranian-backed militias from Iraq struck Saudi Arabia’s strategic East-West oil pipeline on Sept. 10. The 1,200-kilomete
Ali Taher demolition ‘means Hezbollah lost an operating system’ (opens the original)
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The Israeli military’s destruction of Hezbollah’s underground command network on Ali al-Taher Ridge in Southern Lebanon has handed Israel new leverage in negotiations with Lebanon, a former IDF officer tells JNS, In a joint statement on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz confirmed that the IDF destroyed the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s underground infrastructure on the Ali Taher Ridge, “thereby completing the establishment of the security zone in
Iranian regime ‘running out of options’ (opens the original)
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A visit by senior Hamas official Bassem Naim to Tehran in recent days, combined with a warning from Israel’s defense minister that Iran could lash out as economic pressure mounts on the Islamic Republic, has sharpened questions over what Tehran and what remains of its axis might attempt during the Jewish High Holiday period and beyond. Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, met separately in Tehran with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
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