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Causing chaos: Is Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount prayer to blame?

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 15

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir came under fire this week for fanning the flames in the region after praying on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site.

Is Ben-Gvir deserving of the blowback or are Jew-haters worldwide simply happy to have a reason to blame Israel?

Join JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev, both former advisers at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, as they answer this question.

They also discuss the ongoing hostages-for-ceasefire negotiations; the ever-increasing Iranian threat; and Hamas’s exploitation of the Israeli Air Force strike on a Gaza school that hosted a terror base.

All this and more on “Israel Undiplomatic!”

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.
Mark Regev is an Australian-Israeli diplomat, government advisor, and former ambassador. He served as Israel’s Ambassador to the UK (2016–2020) and as Senior Advisor for Foreign Affairs and International Communications to Prime Minister Netanyahu (2020–2021). Currently, he is the Chairman of the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University. Regev co-hosts Undiplomatic on JNS TV’s YouTube channel alongside Ruthie Blum.
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