March 10, 2003. Following national elections, the Russian immigrant party Yisrael BaAliya merges its two Knesset seats into the Likud. Likely a victim of its own success, the electoral failure may have signified the successful assimilation of the nearly 1.6 million former Soviet citizens. Likewise, in A Green Chariot, a young Russian immigrant’s Israeliness is challenged.
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