Corinne Baum

Corinne Baum is a freelance writer and editor. She moved to Israel in August 2023 from Fort Worth, Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri Reynolds Journalism Institute, where she specialized in cross-platform editing and production and minored in Russian. In her spare time, you can find her reading or at a yoga class. She currently lives in Jaffa.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks, September 14, 2026; illustrative

Mamdani calls for end to Israeli 'occupation, genocide' after IDF detains volunteers in West Bank

IDF forces detain volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights in the West Bank village of Nehalim on October 21, 2026.

WATCH: IDF detains 90 West Bank olive harvest volunteers, including US congressional nominee Lander

US citizen Stephen Hubbard with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff after being freed from Russian captivity, October 21, 2026.

Russia releases wrongfully detained US citizen Hubbard following Witkoff-Putin meeting


Texas A-G, Senate candidate Paxton partied in Dubai with his mistress, federal fugitives - report

This comes as James Talarico holds a slight lead over Paxton in Texas’s Senate race. If Talarico wins the race, he will be the first Democrat to hold statewide office since the 1990's.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Capitol Hill, in Washington Thursday, 4th June 2026

Katie Zacharia claims to be a lawyer. Was she ever actually licensed? - report

A spokesman for the State Bar of California told The Washington Post that it “has no record of Kate Sharon Zacharia or Kate Sharon Black having been licensed to practice law in California."

Reporters raise their hands to ask questions as the new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia holds her first press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 13, 2026.

Former military secretary alleges attempt to alter official records of Oct. 7 massacre timeline

“What the public is being told is not what actually happened,” he added. “This isn’t my truth. It’s the country’s truth.”

Former military secretary Avi Gil.

Revealed Russian winter assault plans cripple Ukraine power grid, heat, water systems - report

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to verify the NYT report in an interview with Reuters, adding that Ukraine would "respond in any way (we can)."

A resident walks past an exhibition of destroyed Russian military vehicles covered with snow during cold weather and often power and heating outages after critical civilian infrastructure was hit by recent Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine.

Bennett: IDF will collapse without haredi enlistment, Netanyahu is dismantling military

Former PM warns IDF 'on verge of collapse' without haredi conscription • Netanyahu 'leading the most serious threat of all' in mass draft evasions, vote for PM is 'direct vote against troops'

B'Yachad leader and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, September 29, 2026

Christa Pike set to be first Tennessee woman executed in 200 years, lawyers ask Gov. Lee for mercy

Pike's lawyers have since uncovered documented proof of her childhood sexual and physical abuse. She was reportedly raped several times as a toddler and throughout her teenage years.

Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is pictured in this 2007 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012.

What does Russia’s election reveal about Putin’s grip on power, political opposition? - analysis

Preliminary results released on Monday indicated that United Russia won 355 of 450 seats in the state’s lower house of the legislature, or approximately 57.8% of the vote.

Senior members of Russia's ruling United Russia party, including Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, visit the party's headquarters following the announcement of preliminary results of a parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia.

Taking decisions in both hands: Ex-hostages Keith, Aviva Siegel find new meaning in Yom Kippur

After being denied the most basic choices in Hamas captivity, Keith and Aviva Siegel are reclaiming their freedom and finding a different meaning in Yom Kippur.

The opening of Keith Siegel pancake house, a former Israeli hostage, at Sarona market in Tel Aviv, March 26, 2025.

Zelensky says Russia twice targeted his plane over Moldova in what he calls an intimidation attempt

"In Moldova, my presidential jet was there, and that's why they attacked Moldova," Zelenskyy said. "When we went back home, again through Chisinau, they did the same." 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arriving to the US.

Trump threatens to stop trade with Europe after EU pushes Canada to become associate bloc member

“If it’s a good intention, that’s fine. If it’s a bad intention, we’ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe, which is a possibility,” he said, adding that Canada had been a "terrible trade partner."

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in support of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, at Gastonia Municipal Airport in Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S., September 16, 2026.