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ABC reports that earlier today a suspected break in to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s home occurred. Livni was conducting a radio interview and promoting her election when one of her bodyguards accidentally broadcast an alert over her phone that she was using to give the interview. The bodyguard, who unknowingly had tapped into the [...]
Israel’s domestic security agency is “very concerned” that extremists in the country might attempt to assassinate an Israeli leader to disrupt peace talks with the Palestinians. Yuval Diskin, head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, released the news to the Israeli Cabinet, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. His comments came just two days before [...]
According to new polls, Kadima leader Tzipi Livni is showing a slight lead over Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has been a front runner in polls for Prime Minister over the last two years. Labor party chairman Ehud Barak also dismissed talks of a joint electoral list with Livni’s Kadima party. Surveys have shown [...]
Tzipi Livni has been invited by Ehud Olmert to form a new government. The request came after Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister and leader of the Kadima Party, asked to resign from office. It is claimed that he had been involved in several financial scandals. Livni is now the leader of the Kadima Party, the largest [...]
With Ehud Olmert’s resignation finalized, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni began forming her new government immediately in hopes of becoming Israel’s second female prime minister. Mark Lavie writing in in the Washington Post, mentions that Olmert was suffering from terrible approval ratings that almost reached single digits and Israelis did not want him representing their [...]
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a vote to become the leader of the Kadima party and is on her way to becoming the next Israeli prime minister. She won the vote by 1.1%. Voter turnout for this primary was very low. Before Livni can be named prime minister, she must get a governing [...]