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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

Ksenia Svetlova

Participants in the annual summit of regional cooperation NGO ROPES during a tour of Baku, Azerbaijan, August 2024 (Ben Birnbaum, courtesy)
September 6, 2024, 8:07 pm
In Baku, emerging Israeli and Arab leaders prepare for a post-conflict Middle East
Amid war, ROPES summit gathers people from across the region to discuss Israel’s integration, but some insist that without tackling the Palestinian issue, true peace remains elusive
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Former MK Ksenia Svetlova, an expert on the Middle East and Russia. (courtesy)
February 23, 2024, 8:58 am
What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Russia’s new position on the global ‘Risk’ board
Two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former MK – an expert on her native Russia and the Middle East – weighs in on the Red Empire’s growing reach
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and then-Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City, March 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
December 31, 2023, 5:29 am
As postwar formula for Gaza sought, does Netanyahu’s Hamas = PA equation add up?
The premier insists that the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority cannot rule the Strip; Mideast experts note the movements have distinct differences – but others see similar goals
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Researcher and former MK Ksenia Svetlova in the West Bank. (courtesy)
February 24, 2023, 6:38 am
A year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ‘What Matters Now’ to Ksenia Svetlova
This week in ‘What Matters Now,’ we speak with the former MK, a Middle East and Russo-Ukraine expert, and learn whether Israel’s policy of ‘neutrality’ is actually the best course
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Lawyer Andrei Grishayev, foreground left, and his colleagues prepare to attend a preliminary hearing of the Russian claim to liquidate the Jewish Agency for Israel, in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 28, 2022. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
July 28, 2022, 1:11 pm
First Moscow court hearing on Jewish Agency’s fate ends without decision
Preliminary meeting lasts roughly an hour with no significant discussion; next hearing, set for August 19, expected to be more decisive unless a deal is reached first
By Judah Ari Gross
Left, Prime Minister Yair Lapid heads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2022. Right, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2021. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP; Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
July 25, 2022, 10:21 pm
Ex-Jewish Agency head, analyst back firm stance on Russia: ‘Not a time for weakness’
Amid growing crisis with Moscow, Natan Sharansky says Lapid saving Israel from global shame; former MK Ksenia Svetlova argues timing of spat ‘not a coincidence’
By Judah Ari Gross
Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in a Russian-made T-90AM tank as he visits the Russian Armament Exhibition in Nizhniy Tagil, Sept. 9, 2011. (File: AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)
March 11, 2022, 12:34 am
What does Putin think he’s doing? An expert’s primer on why he invaded, what’s next
Moscow-born Ksenia Svetlova traces Putin’s rise, degeneration, war plans and failures, explains why he’s not (yet) using even more force, and posits a possible end to this tragedy
By David Horovitz
Alexander Kalantyrsky, a construction engineer who helped build the concrete base of the Chernobyl sarcophagus in 1986, at his home in Bat Yam alongside former MK Ksenia Svetlova, June 26, 2019 (ToI staff)
January 20, 2022, 3:22 pm
Alexander Kalantyrsky, leader in Israel of ‘liquidators’ who battled Chernobyl, dies
Construction engineer volunteered to help build the sarcophagus over the exploded nuclear reactor in 1986, immigrated six years later and led campaign for promised state assistance
By David Horovitz
A picture taken during a guided tour with the Russian army shows Syrian elite soldiers taking part in an instruction session with Russian military trainers at an army base in Yafour, some 30 kilometers west of Damascus, September 24, 2019,(Maxime POPOV / AFP)
October 18, 2019, 10:03 am
As US withdraws, Jerusalem spooked by Moscow’s growing control over Middle East
Russia is becoming the last global power militarily engaged in the region. Many analysts warn of great dangers for Israel, though one also sees opportunities
By Raphael Ahren
Citizens cast their ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset elections, on April 9, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 13, 2019, 9:52 am
LISTEN: ‘People of the Pod’ takes on Israeli elections 2019, part deux
Episode #3: Just before the vote, host Seffi Kogen holds lightning-round conversations with Israeli influencers from Left, Right and Center, and TOI’s political correspondent
By ToI Staff
In this photo from August 12, 2019, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)
August 31, 2019, 5:31 am
Alleged Israeli strikes in Iraq unlikely to threaten US presence, experts say
Israel’s reported actions against pro-Iranian militias in the Arab state have exposed internal US differences, underline delicate balancing act required by all sides
By Jacob Magid
Chernobyl "liquidator" Alexander Kalantyrsky, a construction engineer who helped build the concrete base of the Chernobyl sarcophagus in 1986, at his home in Bat Yam, June 26, 2019. His computer shows documentation from his period working at Chernobyl. (Times of Israel staff)
July 3, 2019, 10:42 am
When hubris meets nuclear fission: A Chernobyl liquidator’s warning to humanity
In 1986, Alexander Kalantyrsky volunteered to help build the sarcophagus over the exploded reactor. 6 years later, he made aliya. His life story holds lessons for us all
By David Horovitz
Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of American lone soldier Alex Sasaki, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2019, 7:28 pm
Over a thousand Israelis attend funeral for American lone soldier
After Alex Sasaki found dead due to apparent drug overdose, lawmaker demands emergency Knesset session on ‘worrying trend’ of suicides among new immigrant enlistees
By Jacob Magid and JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and his wife Sara, second left, host Polish President Andrzej Duda, second right, and his wife Agata, at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 18, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 30, 2019, 2:24 pm
As Israel warms ties in Eastern Europe, is Holocaust memory now disposable?
A chorus of Jewish politicians and scholars warn against Israeli realpolitik clouding historically accurate depictions of World War II war crimes
By Sam Sokol
Head of Hatnua party Tzipi Livni speaks at a campaign event on January 29, 2019. (Flash90)
January 29, 2019, 6:14 pm
Livni launches election campaign, accusing government of destroying democracy
After humiliating breakup with Labor, Hatnua party leader says she is open to mergers with other parties
By Michael Bachner
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