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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.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the official opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
A particularly happy anniversary
One year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump, the new sheriff in town, conveyed a loud and clear message that a seismic shift had hit the Middle East. Enemies of freedom and democracy be damned.
May. 14, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Memorial Day ceremony for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror at Yad LeBanim in Jerusalem on May 7, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jihadi missiles, Israeli mourning
Four families’ names will now be noted and quoted together by virtue of their shared tragedy over the course of a single fateful weekend.
May. 7, 2019
Ruthie Blum
The headquarters of “The New York Times.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jewish violence: What the Gray Lady knows it need not fear
Cartoonists, editors or anyone else ridiculing Jews or Judaism don’t have to worry about possible violent repercussions. The same cannot be said of those making fun of Muslims or Islam.
Apr. 30, 2019
Ruthie Blum
A patient receiving a vaccine. Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Measles was eradicated … now it’s back, thanks to anti-vaxxers
More than 110,000 cases of the measles have been reported worldwide since the beginning of the year. Countries once free of the measles are now in danger of reverting to the days before such a blessing existed.
Apr. 23, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference of the Likud Party, presenting the list of candidates, in Ramat Gan on March 4, 2019. Credit: Aharon Krohn/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu and Jewish worry about what the neighbors might think
America is already divided, as is Israel, between those who favor appeasing enemies while reprimanding friends, and those who espouse the opposite view.
Apr. 16, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Gili Yaari and Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
May the best Benjamin win
Israel is a miraculous wonderland—political warts and all—in a region beset by barbarism. Being a country full of Benjamins will do that.
Apr. 9, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Palestinians holds pictures of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as they wear shirts with Turkish flags in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 20, 2016. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Turkey, Ukraine and Israel: An electoral comparison
Israelis across the political spectrum have been talking a lot lately about “fearing” the results of the April 9 elections. This is not only preposterous when contrasted with the situation in Turkey, but also reeks of ingratitude towards Israeli democracy.
Apr. 2, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a house in Moshav Mishmeret, in central Israel, that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on March 25, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s blessings and curses
Most of the Israeli public is aware that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not to blame for the asymmetric warfare imposed on the Jewish state by immoral forces bent on its destruction.
Mar. 26, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
Don’t forget Iran. Netanyahu hasn’t.
The scant attention being paid to Tehran by Israeli pundits is startling; among many developments, that’s where the rockets fired on Tel Aviv were produced.
Mar. 19, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Credit: JCPA.
Senior Contributing Editor
The Palestinians continue to prove the peace fantasists wrong
As Mahmoud Abbas himself told leaders in Baghdad, the Trump administration “is encouraging Israel to be a state above the law,” as well as “biased and not suitable to be a sponsor of peace talks.”
Mar. 5, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is interviewed by Sky News Arabia. Source: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
False hopes, unwarranted hysteria
The glee with which the “anybody but Bibi” camp responded to the national and international outcry of the prime minister’s nod towards the Otzma Yehudit Party was uncontainable. Then the news turned towards peace …
Feb. 26, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Palestinian ‘pay-for-slay’ policy will go on, despite Israel’s new law
With or without the funds to keep Palestinian Authority civil society afloat, the terrorists will continue to be in clover.
Feb. 19, 2019
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