BY ARIEL BEN SOLOMON JUNE 22, 2016 22:42 Zionist Union lawmaker: It has been a long time since an MK appeared officially in Turkey From left to right: Kemal Kirisci-Brookings Institution, Sylvia Tiryaki – GPoT Center, Nimrod Goren – Mitvim Institute, Dan Arbell – Brookings Institution. (photo credit: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION) In a sign of…
BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN AUGUST 10, 2017 19:02 jpost.com When Islamic State targeted Yazidis for genocide in 2014, Israelis such as Lisa Miara, Idan Barir and Ksenia Svetlova stepped forward to raise awareness and say ‘never again’. ‘We in Israel are so sensitive and must be so sensitive to ‘never again’ but what does it mean…
timesofisrael.com As MKs line up to declare support for Kurdistan, one lawmaker seeks to facilitate contact between Kurds and Israelis By Dov Lieber 30 November 2017 Dov Lieber is The Times of Israel’s Arab affairs correspondent. A picture taken on October 21, 2017, shows a man holding an Israeli flag alongside the flag of Iraqi…
www.jpost.com By Ksenia Svetlova November 23, 2017 Israel and Egypt are too important to each other to just give up. ANWAR SADAT and Menachem Begin chat during the former Egyptian president’s historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977. . (photo credit: REUTERS) Israeli and Egyptian flags merged one into another were at the center of the stage,…
Annual report homes in on hot-button areas of Western Wall pluralism, conversion and who has the right to pray at the country’s holiest sites By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN 22 August 2017 323shares timesofisrael.com Jewish men pray during the holiday of Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)…
Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova is part of an international delegation invited by Catalan government to observe independence referendum By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES 1 October 2017 373 shares timesofisrael.com Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party seen during an introduction day for new Knesset members on March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) A Zionist Union MK observing Catalonia’s independence referendum…
BY LAHAV HARKOV OCTOBER 1, 2017 jpost.com “Spanish politicians who criticize Israel should look at what’s going on in their home,” MK Svetlova said. MK Ksenia Svetlova with a rubber bullet in Barcelona as observer in the Catalonian election, October 1, 2017.. (photo credit:MK KSENIA SVETLOVA) Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova found herself in the middle…
BY KSENIA SVETLOVA OCTOBER 4, 2017 The state doesn’t exist independently of its people. The state is the people, who can demand more rights, more power and even secession. jpost.com Students in Catalonia march in support of the region’s independence, September 2017. (photo credit:JON NAZCA/ REUTERS) Anyone who wants to understand the essence of last…
Ksenia Svetlova, Contributor Member of Israeli Knesset, expert on the Middle East huffingtonpost.com 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…
