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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 Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Supreme court Justices arrive to a second day court session on petitions against the coalition agreement between Gantz's Blue and White Party and Netanyahu's Likud at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon
Senior Contributing Editor
Scales of Israeli justice
Outrageously, a panel of 11 judges will determine this week whether the electorate made the right choice of parliamentarians at the ballot box.
May. 5, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Families, friends and comrades of fallen soldiers and terror victims hold a Memorial Day ceremony outside the Ikea store in Rishon Letzion as part of a protest against the government’s closure of military cemeteries on Memorial Day, April 28, 2020. Photo by Cadya Levy/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israeli Memorial Day: Mourning in masks and ‘Ikea-Gate’
Public protests are allowed, even under coronavirus rules, since they involve the civil right to express dissatisfaction with the government.
Apr. 28, 2020
Ruthie Blum
The empty Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Senior Contributing Editor
Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget
Yom Hashoah is a day when aging survivors—many of whom are widowed or have no offspring—have the opportunity to be honored and, above all, heard.
Apr. 21, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Head of Blue and White party Benny Gantz holds a press conference at Kfar Maccabia on March 07 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90
Senior Contributing Editor
Corona curfew, coalition deadline
Apparently, the two sides are close to resolving the dispute. We’ll believe it when we see it.
Apr. 14, 2020
Ruthie Blum
An Israeli police officer at a temporary coronavirus “checkpoint“ on Highway 1 outside of Jerusalem. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Is a request for economic patriotism taking Israel’s lockdown too far?
The prime minister, of all people, understands the workings of the free market.
Apr. 7, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Police officers close synagogues and disperse public gatherings in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Beit Shemesh following the government's decision in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, March 31, 2020. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Haredi statistics show that social distancing works
They have served unwittingly as a control group in the experiment to combat the pandemic.
Mar. 31, 2020
Ruthie Blum
El Al new aircraft Jerusalem of Gold Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives for a welcome ceremony after his landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The diseased attitude of the ‘coronavirus rebels’
The least that those backpackers could do after the “enormous effort and expense” that was spent on repatriating them was sign a quarantine declaration.
Mar. 24, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israel Security Agency Director Nadav Argaman at the 8th International UVID Conference at the Avenue Convention Center in Airport City, on November 7, 2019. Photo by Flash90
Senior Contributing Editor
No need to fear Shin Bet technology for curbing corona
Anyone who is terrified that tracking cell phones for health reasons is a slippery slope to an Orwellian dystopia should get a grip. The sole purpose of enlisting the aid of the Shin Bet is to keep the virus at bay.
Mar. 17, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Joint Arab List Party member Ahmad Tibi at party headquarters in the Arab city of Shfar'am during elections on March 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Gantz shows Netanyahu was right about ‘Bibi or Tibi’
His having revealed that even an anti-Zionist partner is preferable to being second in a rotation as prime minister with Benjamin Netanyahu has done him the kind of harm that could cost him his short-lived political career.
Mar. 10, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech after the release of exit polls results of the Israeli general election at Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2020. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Is Netanyahu’s significant victory sufficient?
The significance of this election—the third in less than a year—lies in its elements of surprise. In the first place, voter turnout reached 71 percent, the highest in 21 years.
Mar. 3, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 17th annual Jerusalem Conference of the “Besheva” group on Feb. 25, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Polls, Gaza, Netanyahu and Gantz
Even members of the public forced into bomb shelters on a regular basis realize that the prime minister is doing the best he can to keep Hamas at bay, while reserving the option to launch a ground incursion into Gaza as a last resort.
Feb. 25, 2020
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud Party event in Lod, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Winds of Mideast change worth remembering at the ballot box
Evidence of thawing anti-Israel enmity among states wishing to ally themselves with Washington against the ayatollah-led regime in Tehran should be cause for great celebration in the so-called “peace camp.”
Feb. 18, 2020
Ruthie Blum
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