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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.

Protesters for and against Likud Party and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, Oct. 1, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
When anger undermines atonement
The climate in Israel surrounding the upcoming Knesset election has been putting a bit of a damper on this year’s Days of Awe.
Oct. 4, 2022
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Israel's Channel 14 program "The Patriots," hosted by Yinon Magal. (center). Source: Facebook.
Senior Contributing Editor
A political ploy to curb free speech
If the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee doesn’t rule against Yair Lapid’s appalling attempt to silence his critics by going after “Channel 14,” let there be hell to pay for the left at the ballot box.
Oct. 2, 2022
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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the launch in Tel Aviv of his National Unity Party's election campaign, Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Benny Gantz’s anti-Netanyahu Rosh Hashanah message
Israel’s touter of “national unity” had the nerve to propose an “end-of-the-country interview” in the event of a Likud victory on Nov. 1.
Sep. 25, 2022
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is interviewed by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl at the presidential compound in Tehran, Sept. 13, 2022. (The "60 Minutes" show was aired on Sept. 18, 2022.) Credit: CBS News.
Senior Contributing Editor
Ebrahim Raisi’s predictable ‘CBS News’ performance
That Leslie Stahl and her “60 Minutes” team were “surprised” by the thuggish behavior of the Iranian president—all because of the “cordial conversation” that preceded it—is as ridiculous as the media’s response to his Holocaust remarks.
Sep. 20, 2022
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Mahsa Amini, Iran
Senior Contributing Editor
The Islamic Republic’s ‘morality’ murder and US appeasement
The protests in Iran over the killing of Mahsa Amini for not wearing a proper hijab present an opportunity that Washington won’t take.
Sep. 18, 2022
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Israel Security Agency director Ronen Bar speaks at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Herzliya, Sept. 11, 2022. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
No, ‘internecine strife’ is not Israel’s greatest threat
If anyone needs admonishing by the heads of the Shin Bet and IDF about the perils of enemies observing Israeli “instability,” it’s the interim anti-Netanyahu government and like-minded lawmakers who care more about preventing a Likud victory than a nuclear Iran.
Sep. 13, 2022
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A view of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers after they were hit by Al Qaeda terrorist-flown planes, Sept. 11, 2001. Credit: Michael Foran/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
The unlearned lessons of 9/11
A short memory may be helpful as a coping mechanism, but it is deadly in matters of foreign policy.
Sep. 11, 2022
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Visas in Israeli Passport
Senior Contributing Editor
Is Israel forfeiting border security in hopes of obtaining US visa waiver status?
The full extent of the capitulation to the Biden administration became apparent this week, when COGAT removed several entry regulations pertaining to foreign visitors to Judea and Samaria.
Sep. 6, 2022
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech to the nation in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2022. Source: Twitter/@POTUS.
Senior Contributing Editor
Joe Biden’s four-D speech
Taking a page from the Israel-bashers’ playbook, the U.S. president added “disingenuousness” to his demonization, imposing of double standards and delegitimization of Republicans—the “three Ds” that Natan Sharansky proposed as proof of anti-Semitism.
Sep. 4, 2022
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Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum
Senior Contributing Editor
The latest Yad Vashem fiasco
The Jerusalem-based World Holocaust Remembrance Center, which professes not to “fall prey to any political agenda,” is defending its recent hire of a post-Zionist “conscientious objector” who compared the IDF to the Nazi Wehrmacht.
Aug. 30, 2022
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F-35 Drill
Senior Contributing Editor
Time is running out to act against Iran
Once the new nuclear deal is signed, Jerusalem’s legitimacy to act militarily against the Islamic Republic will disintegrate, says former Israeli Navy commander Eliezer Marom.
Aug. 28, 2022
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents a trove of Iranian documents on Tehran's nuclear program at a press conference in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Look who’s interfering in the Knesset elections to block a Netanyahu victory
Israeli voters must take into account that Iran and the Palestinian Authority are working to keep the Likud Party leader from reassuming the premiership.
Aug. 21, 2022
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