Implications of Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz's decision to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government range from the purely domestic to the truly globally relevant especially its impact on whether Israel will attack Iranian nuclear facilities. In his latest article, JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin breaks it down.

JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin on the recent "Flytilla" where hundreds of anti-Israel activists planned to board passenger planes and fly to Israel to instigate confrontations in their attempts to delegitimize the state. The event failed due to the Israeli government's recognition that it was not obligated to allow organized, hostile members of foreign organizations onto its territory - indeed no democracy is.

JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin writes from Ashdod in Southern Israel where a recent barrage of rockets launched from Gaza have been terrorizing Israeli citizens. Israel's Iron Dome system has intercepted an impressive 85% of these rockets but much damage is still being done.

JINSA Visiting Fellow, Yaakov Lappin on how the public discourse between the U.S. and Israel on Iran is actually meant portray Israel as the "Rottweiler on a leash being held back by President Obama."

JINSA Visiting Fellow, Yaakov Lappin on the recent hacking of an Israeli coupon website by a hacker claiming to be from Saudi Arabia. This is indicative of a new kind of conflict developing in the Middle East and should serve as a wake up call for the Israeli private sector to increase its online defenses.

JINSA Visiting Fellow, Yaakov Lappin, discusses the Egyptian military's weakening grip on power and how it is the last obstacle standing in the way of an alliance between a Cairo under Islamist rule and the Hamas regime in Gaza.

JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin examines the Iranian media frenzy that gripped Israel.

The latest JINSA Analysis by Yaakov Lappin on how the Shalit affair was also a victory for internal Israeli solidarity.

JINSA Visiting Fellow Yaakov Lappin on the fierce debate gripping Israel's defense and intelligence community over fateful questions that have arisen from the recent period of Middle Eastern turmoil.