Entire IRGC Command Wing in Syria Was Eliminated (Maariv-Jerusalem Post)
    Bloomberg television reported Saturday that in the attack attributed to Israel next to the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, the entire command hierarchy responsible for the activities of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria and Lebanon was killed.
    "The senior officers were pivotal for Hizbullah's activities in the region."

Report: U.S. Has Developed Missiles that Could Destroy the Electronics of Iran's Nuclear Facilities - Ronald Kessler (Daily Mail-UK)
    The U.S. Air Force has deployed missiles that could destroy the electronics of Iran's nuclear facilities with high-power microwaves, rendering them useless, without causing any fatalities.
    Known as the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), the missiles were built by Boeing and first tested successfully in 2012. They were installed in various locations around the globe and became operational in 2019.
    The beauty of the high power microwave (HPM) missile is that even if a bunker is buried in a mountain, HPM penetrates the facilities through its connections to power cables, communication lines, and antennas.
    Thus, HPM can penetrate any underground military or nuclear facility and destroy its electronics.
    Targeted at command and control centers, the missile could render any country's military inoperable. And one missile can hit multiple targets in succession.

Iran Has Begun Preliminary Work on Building a Nuclear Warhead - Mark Dubowitz interviewed by Elliot Kaufman (Wall Street Journal)
    Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says he has tried for years "to make the case that the Islamic Republic is a threat to the region, its own people and the U.S., and that it needs to be dealt with, not wished away."
    After Iran's April 13 attack, "At least temporarily - very temporarily - Israel got out of the penalty box and Iran has gone in."
    Iran keeps breaking through red lines on its nuclear program "and things that would've been intolerable 10 years ago are tolerable today."
    The West once thought Iranian enrichment of uranium was intolerable. "Now, they're enriching uranium to 60%, which is a stone's throw away from weapons-grade."
    Of Israel's airstrike in response, Dubowitz said, "'Our air defenses worked, your expensive S-300 didn't. You targeted our air force base, we hit your air force base,' using much less to do much more damage," and near a nuclear facility.
    Adding insult to injury, the strike came on Mr. Khamenei's 85th birthday.
    Moreover, the strike "reaffirms to the Saudis that Israel is the only country with the will and capabilities to take on Iran."
    "I have been led to believe that Iran's weaponization activities have begun. After a long pause during which Iran's nuclear enrichment and missile program advanced, Iran is now taking preliminary steps that will help build a warhead."
    "That is headline news, because it contradicts the longtime U.S. intelligence consensus, and it suggests the Iranians are even closer to a deliverable nuclear weapon than we had thought."
    "I don't get a straight answer in Washington, but I got a straight answer in Israel: 'We have evidence, we have intelligence. They have begun preliminary work on the weapon.'"

The Involvement of Palestinian Authority Security Forces in Terror Attacks Against Israel - S. Schneidmann (MEMRI)
    Over recent years, many members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have turned their weapons on Israeli security forces and even initiated shooting attacks against Israelis.
    After their death, they have frequently been revealed to belong to Palestinian terror organizations such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - the military wing of Fatah, the political party led by PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
    Many armed and uniformed PA security officers visit the mourning tents of slain terrorists, and the PA pays benefits to the families of terrorists killed in the course of such action.

U.S. Universities Must Stop Tolerating Antisemitism - Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein (New York Post)
    Columbia University's president and other college administrators have stated that the chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is permissible political speech.
    It is also permissible for white supremacists to demand all blacks be sent back to Africa and all Muslims to Saudi Arabia.
    But would any school permit such bigoted chants? Would it take action against such racists? Of course it would.
    So the issue is not one of abstract free speech. It is whether the school applies the same standard to Jews, blacks, gays and other minorities.
    What is permissible to say against Jews and Israel would not be permissible to say against blacks or gays. That is the reality.
    Universities should apply a single standard for free speech and harassment.
    They cannot punish anti-black racism while tolerating anti-Jewish racism, even if the First Amendment protects both.
    Alan Dershowitz is Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Andrew Stein served as New York City Council president.
    See also Columbia Fails to Protect Its Jewish Community - Amb. Michael Oren (Wall Street Journal)

The Women behind the IDF's New Precise Mortar Used in Gaza - Anat Lev Adler (Ynet News)
    The Iron Sting, developed at Elbit Systems, is the world's only mortar munition that becomes a target-guided missile, so that its impact is lethal and smart and reaches the precision level of a room in a house.
    "No [other] mortar munition can provide destruction at this level," says Dr. A., 73, who has managed the warhead field at Israel Military Industries (IMI) for 35 years. (IMI has now been acquired by Elbit.)
    Elbit VP L. says, "I was an infantry and mortar instructor in the army....I became head of the mortar section responsible for certifying and training infantry fighters for mortars and their operation. Elbit took me on from the army. I've been in the field for 25 years."
    "Like Dr. A. is known as Ms. Warheads, I'm known as Ms. Mortars. Any commander with a mortar problem in Gaza will call me directly from the field....They know me from the army from when I was their mortar instructor. Who else would they call?"
    With Iron Sting, "a soldier can hit a target with a single mortar in under a minute and, for the first time...there's precise weaponry integrated into the existing system that the soldiers already know how to operate."
    Z., 52, said, "I've been involved in Iron Sting from the development stage and I'm now responsible for our production. We've been working hard these past few months and we've been very much part of the war."

Female Brig.-Gen. Commands IDF's LOTEM Technology Division - Yonah Jeremy Bob (Jerusalem Post)
    Brig.-Gen. Yael Grossman, commander of the IDF's LOTEM intelligence division, is one of seven female IDF officers holding that rank.
    LOTEM is involved in cyber defense, ensuring the reliability of communications in tunnel warfare, and supporting precision firepower targeting.
    Grossman spoke at a recent conference about how artificial intelligence has helped the IDF to manage its firepower and force distribution at whole new levels during the war with Hamas.
    Beyond all these specific tasks, LOTEM is the division for storing IDF information.