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MK Avigdor Lieberman getting the news of his candidate's defeat in the Jerusalem mayoral election Tuesday night. Things have been going badly for this Israeli political boss, who's facing a court decision on his future.

If Lieberman wins, he’ll have an enormous task of regrouping, and of finding out whether or not the “Russians” are still in his camp. It’s not inconceivable that in the last five years, Israel’s one million Russian olim have gone native, and so an ethnically identified figure like Lieberman may be on the way out or off to the shop, to get himself reinvented.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.