Amir Rapaport
Mr. Amir Rapaport is the founder and Editor in Chief of IsraelDefense Magazine - an international magazine on Israeli military and defense affairs. He is a former military correspondent and commentator, an author and research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) of Bar-Ilan University.
As the West Bank is flooded with weapons and terrorism is on the rise, Israel’s police are perhaps weaker than ever. And could the price for normalization with Saudi Arabia be too high to pay? | Amir Rapaport discusses this week’s burning defense issues
A constitutional crisis, legal exemption from conscription, and/or an all-out war? Amir Rapaport breaks down this week’s top defense and security events in Israel
Can Israel truly "return Lebanon to the Stone Age"? | How do two types of Israeli policy in the Middle East contradict each other? | Will the government stop the "Israelization" of its Arab citizens? | Is normalization with Saudi Arabia really worth its price?
The current IDF model is collapsing, and until a new model is established, the army might be revealed as unprecedently weak in the case of a multi-front war. Plus: the military service of the ultra-orthodox, and which online influence campaigns to watch out for this coming week
Amir Rapaport comments on the top defense news of this week: the people’s army, as we know it, is over; pilots’ WhatsApp groups are exploding; global cooperation remains in order; on fueling an attack; and what will happen to the Israeli Border Police
The situation with Hezbollah is heating up – but the goal might not be an explosion; Hamas’ rocket industry in Samaria is worrisome – but can be thwarted; The MoD’s current Baku visit; and the legitimacy of Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to China
Five comments on five days of “Shield and Arrow.” A special column by Amir Rapaport
The rockets launched by Hezbollah were probably an Iranian revenge for recent actions attributed to the IDF – while Israel prefers the Hamas-Temple Mount narrative