BY KSENIA SVETLOVA JUNE 7, 2017 21:46 jpost.com Israel and the world should think outside the box A WOMAN looks out a window in the Gaza Strip. (photo credit:REUTERS) A few days into the new regional disarray, the Americans, as well as the Kuwaitis and Omanis, are already looking for solution that will allow the re-creation…
Ksenia Svetlova, Contributor Member of Israeli Knesset, expert on the Middle East To date, the region’s prospects are not promising. huffingtonpost.com 05/24/2017 01:55 am ET Updated May 25, 2017 GETTY IMAGES Trump in Saudi Arabia with king Salman The United States President, Donald Trump, was all smiles as he strode down the red carpet in Al-Riyadh,…
huffingtonpost.com Ksenia Svetlova, ContributorMember of Israeli Knesset, expert on the Middle East 09/25/2017 03:04 am ET Today the women and men of Kurdistan will answer the most important question of their lives. Should Kurdistan break away from Iraq to pursue its independence, or should it preserve a status quo of unstable co-existence under the rule…
BY BEN LYNFIELD JULY 12, 2017 01:54 Arab Mks say that should a bill proposing to eliminate Arabic’s official status in the country pass, it will be a “nakba of our language.” A road sign in English, Hebrew, and Arabic points to the Israeli settlement of Susiya. (photo credit:AFP PHOTO) Elimination of Arabic’s status as an…
Ksenia Svetlova, ContributorMember of Israeli Knesset, expert on the Middle East http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/ksenia-svetlova 05/24/2017 01:55 am ET | Updated 26 minutes ago GETTY IMAGESTrump in Saudi Arabia with king Salman The United States President, Donald Trump, was all smiles as he strode down the red carpet in Al-Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. He clearly enjoyed…
Jerusalem Post BY BEN LYNFIELD 24 JANUARY 2017 05:09 MK Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union) said the Post report and other reports emerging about the incident appear to show that the scene of the police operation was a “complete mess.” Police in Umm-al-Hiran. (photo credit: Courtesy) Eyewitness accounts published in The Jerusalem Post in which residents…
Jerusalem Post By Ben Lynfield 23 January 2017 06:49 Accounts raise possibility policeman killed by friendly fire, not terror attack. Police in Umm-al-Hiran. (photo credit:Courtesy) Police officers allegedly fired at a police vehicle during the deadly incident in Um Al-Hiran last week, two eyewitness told The Jerusalem Post, raising the possibility that friendly fire was exchanged…
04.07.2016 “Israel has strayed from the route” Ksenia Svetlova. Photo Twitter “I am a product of this country,” 38-year-old Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova exclaims proudly, “I have been living here for 25 years.” A Russian-born immigrant to Israel, she studied Middle Eastern History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and went on to become a respected Arab…
Jerusalem, Israel June 3, 2016 The Arabic language day in the Knesset, and Being an Arabic teacher to Israeli 12 years old Jewish pupils in Jerusalem The Knesset marked its first-ever Arabic language Day, which saw Arab and even a few Jewish lawmakers speak in the plenum in Arabic with simultaneous translation into Hebrew, and committee…
Jerusalem, Israel June 3, 2016 The Arabic language day in the Knesset, and Being an Arabic teacher to Israeli 12 years old Jewish pupils in Jerusalem The Knesset marked its first-ever Arabic language Day, which saw Arab and even a few Jewish lawmakers speak in the plenum in Arabic with simultaneous translation into Hebrew, and committee…
