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Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

There’s nothing new about Jewish disunity, which makes our story even more miraculous.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 48
Yaron Zelekha says the high cost of living, not Trump’s tariffs, which requires tackling. Oh, and Iranian nukes, of course.
Any leader with whom the Israeli P.M. has warm relations is fair game for denigration by the punditocracy; and Hungary is the protest movement’s pet peeve.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 47
A U.S. probe of the money trail to the Israeli machine operating to topple Benjamin Netanyahu should cause the movement’s radical engineers to shake in their Birkenstocks.
As veteran Israeli commentator on Arab affairs Zvi Yehezkeli points out, “If those protesting Hamas had a chance, they would commit Oct. 7 again.”
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 46
Hamas is taking its cue from the “anybody but Bibi” camp, which is endangering the hostages and weakening the war effort.
The Supreme Court elder responsible for Israel’s decades-old “constitutional revolution” isn’t merely predicting civil war; he’s inciting it.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 45
“Operation Strength and Sword” in Gaza upstaged the protest movement’s plans to escalate its war against Benjamin Netanyahu on the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.