ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to explain and analyze the voting patterns of immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in the Israeli elections of 2015, and determine whether they were resocialized and are drawing closer to the local Israeli population in political attitudes and voting patterns. In other words, we investigated signs of acclimation, assimilation, or absorption in the destination society-a process referred to here as “Israelization”: following political socialization, the ethnic component weakens as a predictor of voting and the immigrants become more similar to veteran Israelis.
