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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.

Police escort a Palestinian charged with the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, at the Jerusalem Magistrate's court, on Feb. 11, 2019. The suspect was captured hiding in Ramallah after Israeli forces investigated the scene where the young woman was found dead last week in Ein Yael, in the outskirts of Jerusalem. Photo Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Crime and punishment, Israeli-style
What is it about a murder committed by a terrorist that differentiates it in the Israeli mindset from one perpetrated by a “regular” criminal?
Feb. 12, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli Knesset on Dec. 24, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Primary concerns
It is par for the course that candidates’ claws come out before an election.
Feb. 5, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Judea and Samaria Division Commander Brig.-Gen. Eran Niv speaks at an evening in commemoration of Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Mualem, commander of the Beaufort battalion, who was killed in the twin helicopter crash over the rural community of Sha'ar Yishuv in February 1997, in Gush Etzion on February 17, 2018. Credit: Gershon Elinson/FLASH90
Senior Contributing Editor
Commanding scorn
The taking of personal responsibility is befitting of someone leading others into battle.
Jan. 29, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Cabinet members get a tour with the IDF Northern Command in the Golan Heights, on Feb. 6, 2018. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Is Israel’s inevitable war with Iran already underway?
It would be a mistake to dismiss nuclear threats coming out of Tehran as mere saber-rattling, given its stated intention and increasingly overt attempts to annihilate Israel, even at its own potential peril.
Jan. 24, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Jan 13, 2019. Credit: Amit Shabi/YEDIOT ACHRANOT/POOL.
Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu’s welcome ‘ambiguity’ breach
The battle against Iran is not merely military. It also involves no small amount of psychological warfare.
Jan. 17, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Knesset member Tzipi Livni attends a Conference of Israel Hofsheet organization at Kibbutz Nahsholim on Jan. 4, 2019. Credit: Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The ‘anybody but Bibi’ camp’s bluster
When Tzipi Livni and her ilk try to promote the idea that Netanyahu is a greater danger to Israel than Islamist missiles and butcher knives covered in Jewish blood, most of us just sigh and yawn.
Jan. 10, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Arab convicts sit and talk in their cell in a jail in the Ayalon complex. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The prison party’s over for Hamas and Fatah
The fact that terrorists have been treated to cushier conditions than other incarcerated criminals is beyond scandalous.
Jan. 4, 2019
Ruthie Blum
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends an aerial show at a graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 27, 2017. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO
Senior Contributing Editor
Ill-boding for Israel’s enemies
Fortunately for Israel and the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu possesses an uncanny ability to function on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Dec. 27, 2018
Ruthie Blum
AIPAC
Senior Contributing Editor
Hail to Haley
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley not only has lived up to the legacies of other great U.N. ambassadors, she has surpassed them.
Dec. 20, 2018
Ruthie Blum
Matteo Salvini speaks during a Lega Nord rally in 2013. Credit: Fabio Visconti via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
It’s Islamic terrorism, stupid!
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Matteo Salvini should know better than to expect his European compatriots to accept any comment that could be construed as offensive to Muslims.
Dec. 13, 2018
Ruthie Blum
The head of the IDF’s Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Yoel Strik, meets with UNIFIL Commander Gen. Stefano Del Col of Italy, for a tour of the area of a cross-border attack tunnel from Lebanon into Israel, Dec. 6, 2018. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Senior Contributing Editor
Tunnel vision and UNIFIL
UNIFIL has done nothing since the 2006 war but sit back and relax while Hezbollah proceeded to rebuild its massive and increasingly sophisticated arsenal, courtesy of Iran, aimed at wiping Israel off the map.
Dec. 6, 2018
Ruthie Blum
AIPAC, Netanyahu
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel, U.S. Jews and the left-right rift
While once admired by liberal U.S. Jews for being a tiny David confronted by an anti-Semitic Goliath—a little lady in need of her big man for survival—Israel has slowly been transforming into an uppity force to be reckoned with.
Nov. 29, 2018
Ruthie Blum
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