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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.

President Trump’s State of the Union address and Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the Knesset were bolstered, not marred, by partisan tantrums.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
The prime minister’s invoking of Purim wasn’t merely an apt analogy. It was Bibi at his best, calling for unity in the face of what could turn out to be a biblical challenge.
In the interview-gone-viral with his former “Fox News” colleague, the U.S. ambassador to Israel was uncannily unflappable.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
Casting aspersions on the prime minister’s trip to Washington is par for the “anybody but Bibi” propagandists.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
Comedienne Yael Poliakov’s vulgar comments to podcast co-host Assi Azar caused viral outrage, giving new meaning to the term “body politic.”
Israelis pored over U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s latest interviews to see if anything new or encouraging could be gleaned from them.
The former prime minister-turned-protest leader let Jeffrey Epstein in on his plan to populate the Jewish state with the “right kind of people.”
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
Au revoir, Médecins Sans Frontières. Don’t let the door hit you in the derrière on your way out of Gaza.