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Ruthie Blum

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.

An anti-government protest outside a Tel Aviv retirement home, March 16, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The protest movement can’t unravel the thread of Israel’s unique tapestry
Despite the damage the demonstrators are doing to Israel’s standing and security, the one thing they won’t be able to shake is the underlying health of a society that cares deeply about preserving Judaism, Zionism and—yes—popular culture.
Mar. 20, 2023
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A bitcoin ATM in Tel Aviv, Sept. 9, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
False depictions of Israeli reforms and the fall of SVB
The anti-Netanyahu-government protest movement is taking the metaphor of a guy bemoaning his orphanhood after killing his parents to a whole new level.
Mar. 14, 2023
Ruthie Blum
Anti-government protesters demonstrate outside the Tel Aviv residence of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, March 3, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Denouncing Israel’s judicial reforms won’t have the effect Herzog desires
The Israeli president’s attempt to broker a compromise by appeasing the “resistance” is a waste of time. The protest movement aims for a complete halt to the legislative process and ultimate fall of the Jewish state’s democratically elected government.
Mar. 12, 2023
Ruthie Blum
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi at a ceremony at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Jan. 1, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi should call his troops to order
That enemy eulogies of the Jewish state are given a boost by the Israeli press may be disconcerting, but it’s the price—and privilege—of free speech. Soldiers don’t enjoy such a luxury, however.
Mar. 7, 2023
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Protesters descend on the Tel Aviv salon where Sara Netanyahu was having her hair done, March 1, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Sara Netanyahu’s hair-raising experience
The spin that Israel’s first lady scheduled her salon appointment in Tel Aviv to attract a commotion and gain sympathy is just as nonsensical as the propaganda that judicial reform will result in an impoverished theocratic dictatorship.
Mar. 5, 2023
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog attends the funeral of former Knesset Speaker Shevah Weiss at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, Feb. 5, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Herzog in the crosshairs
The idea that it’s possible at this juncture to conduct rational talks with hysteria-mongering judicial-reform rejectionists is tenuous, at best.
Feb. 19, 2023
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The funeral of 7-year-old Asher Menachem Paley, victim of an Arab car-ramming attack the previous day at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Feb. 11, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Three Jewish funerals and an Israeli hate-fest
The terrorist murder of two children and a newlywed didn’t put a dent in the demonstrations against the so-called “death of democracy.”
Feb. 12, 2023
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A protester in Tel Aviv waves a placard comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the late Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar, Feb. 4, 2023. Photo by Gili Yaari /Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Israeli left’s violent rhetoric and phony ‘apologies’
It’s hard to believe that the anti-government propagandists could sink any lower, but they managed this week to outdo themselves.
Feb. 5, 2023
Ruthie Blum
Anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv waving Palestinian flags. Jan. 28, 2023. Source: Twitter/Moti Kastel.
Senior Contributing Editor
Terror in Jerusalem, PLO flags in Tel Aviv
Protesters bemoaning a concocted danger—the so-called “death of Israeli democracy” at the hands of the Netanyahu-led government—made a mockery of the actual mass murder of innocents.
Jan. 29, 2023
Ruthie Blum
A rally in Tel Aviv against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, Jan. 21, 2023. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Kudos to ‘The Wall Street Journal’ for demonstrating integrity about Israeli democracy
The WSJ editorial board has a more positive take on the resilience and future of the Jewish state than the protesters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Jan. 22, 2023
Ruthie Blum
Outgoing Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 22, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Lapid’s lament: ‘There’s only one truth, and the rest is a lie’
The reductive portrait of Israelis’ connection to the Jewish state painted by the country’s opposition leader is beyond the pale. It also illustrates that members of the right were justified all along to question the depth of the Yesh Atid Party chairman’s Zionism.
Jan. 15, 2023
Ruthie Blum
Tel Aviv University Professor Asa Kasher attends a Special Committee meeting on drug and alcohol abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Jan. 24, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
An Israel Prize laureate’s anti-government stance reveals a sinister view of the Jewish state
Professor Asa Kasher, author of the IDF’s Code of Conduct, inadvertently did more to explain the victory of the right than most of its own champions.
Jan. 10, 2023
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