Ksenia Svetlova

Ksenia Svetlova is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya. She previously served as a Parliament member and was a Foreign affairs and defense committee member. Ksenia Svetlova was a board member of Mitvim institute for regional foreign policies, and Middle East analyst with Israeli channel 9. She published numerous scholarly journal articles, international and national newspaper editorials, and magazine features, and reported exclusively from Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories for the Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Report, BBC Russian, Channel 9 and other international media. A specialist in Middle East affairs and Arab politics, as well as Russia's influence in The Middle East, she graduated with magna cum laude honors with an MA and BA degrees in Middle Eastern studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is fluent in English, Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic. In 2019 Ksenia Svetlova authored her first book - "The Middle East on heels"