In Episode 8 of our Election Overdose podcast Anshel Pfeffer and Dahlia Scheindlin together with this week’s guest Ksenia Svetlova ask who are the 'Russian' voters? Why do they vote mainly for the right-wing? Why are some of their representatives in the Knesset vaccination-skeptics and does that attract voters?

 

Also, what was Benjamin Netanyahu trying to achieve in his rare prime-time TV interview this week? Why is everyone ganging up on Labor’s Arab-Israeli candidate? And will the battle between Naftali Bennett and Gideon Sa’ar decide the outcome of the election?

 

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>> FACT CHECK: Netanyahu gave a rare interview. Here are eight lies he told

>> The idiot’s guide to Israel’s idiotic election, Part II: The Seinfeld factor

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