Israeli elections

Video: Israel’s Russian influence

 

 
 The ‘Russian influence’ in Israeli politics 
 

On February 10, Israelis will go to the polls to choose a new government.

Israel’s “Russians” – a catch term for some of the one million immigrants who have moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union over the past two decades – could hold the key to the next government and are said to be gravitating towards the right.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports.