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136 N. Woodward
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647-0550

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Orchard Lake Road
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One Block East
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Soviet Jewish Emigrants
Will Tip Voting Balance

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1990

NECHEMIA MEYERS

Special to The Jewish News

R

10 - 8:00

14 Mile & Orchard Lake Rd
Farmington Hills, MI 48018

For windows that
look like, a million but
don't cost a fortune

Soviet dim arriving at Ben Gurion Airport.

Monday-Friday
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

"Where You Come First"

Kosins

Uptown
Southfield Rd. at
11 1/2 Mile • 559-3900

Big & Tall
Southfield at
101/2 Mile • 569-6930

ussian immigrants
will probably deter-
mine whether Labor
or the Likud emerges vic-
torious from the next Israeli
election.
The 180,000 Soviet olim
who have come in the last
two decades already make
up eight percent of the elec-
torate, and those arriving
now could double that
percentage by the next elec-
tion.
Yet neither political par-
ties nor social scientists
have so far attempted to de-
termine how the 180,000
Soviet Jews voted in
previous elections, let alone
how the newcomers are like-
ly to vote in future ones.
Since immigrants from the
Soviet Union are universally
antagonistic towards Com-
munism, many observers
assume that they will
automatically support right-
wing parties. This is par-
ticularly the case because
Labor, which long ago aban-
doned its Socialist prin-
ciples, still clings to some of
its Socialist symbols like the
red flag, which antagonizes
Russian immigrants far
more than it does bulls.
Yet this doesn't prove that
former residents of Moscow,
Leningrad and Odessa are in
Shamir's pocket. In Rehovot,
at least, there is evidence to
the contrary. In the last
municipal election, a "Rus-
sian list" headed by a Labor
Party leader gained a seat on
the City Council.
Galina, a librarian who

Necheinia Meyers is a
journalist living in Rehovot,
Israel.

.

votes for Labor, thinks that
her fellow Russian immi-
grants often start out on the
right and then, as they
become better acquainted
with the complex problems
facing Israel, move to Labor.
However, she adds, they
rarely move to the left of
Labor.
Mathematician Yosef, an-
other immigrant from the
USSR, has steadfastly back-
ed right-wing parties since
his arrival 16 years ago.
Most of the time he has
worked for the Tehiya party,
which, he says, has three
times the support among
Russian immigrants as it
has among the population as
a whole.
No matter what happens,
Yosef declares, "I can't see
myself voting for the leftists,
who are more interested in
the rights of the Palestin-
ians than they are in the
rights of Russian Jews."
A very large percentage of
the Russian immigrants are
well-educated, very serious
people, many of whom meet
in monthly discussion circles
to ponder political problems
as well as cultural and social
issues. Yet few have taken
the next logical step and
entered the political arena.
Indeed, only one immigrant
from the Soviet Union,
Georgian- born Ephraim
Gur, is in the Knesset (as a
representative of the Labor
Party).
Such luminaries as Natan
Sharansky and Ida Nudel
have thus far avoided identi-
fying themselves with any
particular political party.
Sharansky says he doesn't
want to do so because his
full-time efforts on behalf of
Soviet immigrants require
him to be on good terms with
all the parties.

