Sharon is focusing on speaking engagements in cities with major Russian immigrant concentrations. He has already appeared in Haifa and Beersheba and is due to speak next week in Ashdod, Ashkelon and Nazareth, says Blumenthal. At nearly all appearances, he is accompanied by Sharansky and Lieberman, and opens his speech with a smattering of Russian. The result is that veteran Israelis watch nightly election propaganda broadcasts that have Russian subtitles, feature Russian-accented interviewees, and occasionally include cameo appearances by Sharon speaking in Russian. Even if he was, analysts say that the question of who runs the Interior Ministry is just not an issue in this election.
Security is the issue.
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