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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.

Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at Channel 12's "influencers' conference" in Jerusalem, March 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
International Women’s Day is an intersectional joke
What’s sorely lacking today isn’t “equality,” but rather, chivalry. Our job as women is to educate men that their role is to protect and preserve us, whether we’re housewives, politicians or titans of industry.
Mar. 8, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid at Knesset in Jerusalem, Jan. 31, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Assessing Israel’s vow to prevent a nuclear Iran
The Bennett-Lapid government’s attitude towards the Biden administration casts doubt on its threat to go it alone.
Feb. 22, 2022
Ruthie Blum
“Freedom Convoy” trucks on Rideau Street in Ottawa, Canada, Jan. 31, 2022. Credit: Wikipedia.
Senior Contributing Editor
Unmasking Trudeau’s lies and trucker truths
Israelis might want to pause from now on before poking fun at “submissive” Canadians.
Feb. 15, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Election Poster in Turkey for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Senior Contributing Editor
Erdoğan’s deceitful courtship of Israel
One thing at which the Turkish president excels is capitalizing on a crisis of his own making.
Feb. 1, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s ill-fated powwows with the Palestinian Authority
No wonder Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is keeping quiet about his meeting with the P.A. “minister” in charge of civil affairs.
Jan. 25, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Israelis in Tel Aviv wear protective masks in accordance with coronavirus regulations, Oct. 26, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
There’s no cure for health-authority pig-headedness
Any doctor who doesn’t toe the going ideological line is attacked for being irresponsible or, worse, for causing the death of innocent people.
Jan. 18, 2022
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas heads for a meeting of the P.A. leadership in Ramallah. May 7, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool
Whatever Israel’s defense minister may have told himself and others about what took place during his latest session with the Palestinian Authority leader, it certainly wasn’t “confidence-building.”
Jan. 4, 2022
Ruthie Blum
A coronavirus-testing drive-through station in Jerusalem, Dec. 21, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Coronavirus double-speak
You don’t have to be a doctor to distinguish between Hippocrates and hypocrisy, the latter as abundant these days as the hype about Omicron.
Dec. 21, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks at a faction meeting of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 13, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Avigdor Lieberman’s crass admonition to a sector decimated by COVID closures
The Israeli finance minister might want to take the advice that he gave to tourism-industry workers and “find another job.”
Dec. 14, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli broadcast journalist Dana Weiss at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The funny feminist angle to Gilat Bennett’s defiance of her husband’s Omicron plea
The outcry about the first lady going ahead with plans that others were told to postpone was as natural as anchorwoman Dana Weiss’s response was ridiculous.
Dec. 7, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Iranian military spokesman Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi. Source: Tehran Times.
Senior Contributing Editor
Iran’s military gears up for Vienna talks by vowing to annihilate Israel
Iranian army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi’s latest attacks on the United States and the “Zionist regime” should serve as sufficient cause for Washington to call off the whole nuclear-negotiation charade.
Nov. 30, 2021
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Muni Expo 2021 conference in Tel Aviv, Oct. 20, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Bennett’s big Twitter blunder
The Israeli prime minister’s social-media team blocked a bereaved parent—on the day of Eliyahu Kay’s killing, no less.
Nov. 23, 2021
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