Ksenia Svetlova is non–resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs, executive director of ROPES (Regional Organization for Peace, Economics, and Security), and former member of the Knesset. Her work focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Arab relations, and Russian influence in the Middle East. She has covered the Middle East for fifteen years at Israeli TV, and has written for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Haaretz, BBC Russian, Newsweek, among others.