Itai Brun

Itai Brun is the head of the Israeli Military Intelligence research and analysis division, as of 2013.

At a lecture to the Institute for National Security Studies] in April 2013, stated that the Bashar Assad regime in Syria had repeatedly used chemical weapons in that country's civil war, the Times of Israel reported:

“To the best of our professional understanding, the regime has used lethal chemical weapons,” he said of President Bashar Assad’s Syria, noting that the IDF believed the toxic element was Sarin, a nerve agent far more deadly than cyanide, and that it had been used on more than one occasion, including in a specific attack on March 19.