Tzipi Livni
Lawyer and former Foreign Affairs Minister of IsraelWikipedia
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Oct 23, 2026
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
Now, this issue of selections has come up over the years, even before the judicial reform of this particular Knesset.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
You can find both substantial talk and action about it by former Justice Minister Daniel Friedman, by Gideon Saar, by Yelech Shaked, and by earlier incarnations of Naftali Bennett and Tzipi Livni.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
But they've been few and far between, and the process itself encourages the detachment.
Elena Mazel-DiamantHOST
Now, add to this detachment the potential explosiveness of the legal question.
Ayala PanievskyGUEST
Unfortunately, I believe Netanyahu is much more savvy and kind of ruthless and will be better at doing all these kind of shenanigans.
Ayala PanievskyGUEST
And we've seen this before, right? There were elections more than a decade ago when Tzipi Livni won.
Ayala PanievskyGUEST
the most votes her party was the biggest and yet Netanyahu was the one who ended up forming a coalition so once you get into the space of playing games I'm afraid that I would bet on Netanyahu So if
Emily MaitlisHOST
people are watching the elections and it's next Tuesday what are the signs that you would say this could herald a real win for the opposition or this could herald a continuation of Netanyahu what would you be looking out for?
Rory StewartHOST
the way that Israeli coalitions work has often produced these very odd results.
Rory StewartHOST
We had a situation going back in the day when Tzipi Livni got more seats than Netanyahu, and Netanyahu became the prime minister.
Rory StewartHOST
We got that thing that many listeners may remember, which is Naftali Bennett, who was the head of a very small party, with a very small number of seats, suddenly ending up as prime minister because they were unable to put together a coalition in any other way.
Rory StewartHOST
One cliché people will have heard again and again is that a lot of the question is going to be around what happens with the Arab vote.
Alon BursteinGUEST
It doesn't tend to happen in general in Israel.
Alon BursteinGUEST
Now, combine that with the fact that the elections ever since 2020 have really gotten into this question of, is Netanyahu still fit to be prime minister? And every single time that someone has gone into a deal with Netanyahu and Netanyahu has backstabbed them, whether it's Lanmeri Dor, whether it's Sholem Mufaz, whether it's Tzipi Livni, whether it's Arik Sharonov, I mean, the list is endless.
Alon BursteinGUEST
Herzog, And then of course, Benny Gantz, that was a big thing.
Alon BursteinGUEST
Gantz was a big party on the center left and Netanyahu was a big party on the right.
Nadav EyalGUEST
Let me give you an example that Amit remembers.
Nadav EyalGUEST
So Tzipi Livni, 2009.
Nadav EyalGUEST
She won one seat more than Netanyahu.
Nadav EyalGUEST
She came to the negotiations.
Noam WeissmanHOST
At the time, his hold on power looks shaky.
Noam WeissmanHOST
Two rivals, Tzipi Livni of Hatnua and Isaac Herzog of Labor, joined forces to form the Zionist Union.
Noam WeissmanHOST
The plan, beat Netanyahu, then take turns as prime minister.
Noam WeissmanHOST
These Israelis, they love taking turns as prime minister, eh? As Election Day approaches, their odds look good.
Jonathan TobinHOST
He has always been different from his opponents on the political left, as well as those who came from Likud, like Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, in one major respect – Sharon and Omer blew up the Likud in 2005 to facilitate the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip that led to the formation of the Hamas state there in 2007 and ultimately the tragedy of October 7, 2023.
Jonathan TobinHOST
But unlike them or Rabin, Perez, Sharon, Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni, or Yair Lapid, who also competed against Netanyahu in elections, he never succumbed to magical thinking about peace and the Palestinians and their Iranian allies.
Jonathan TobinHOST
Had the Palestinians been capable of paying the price for statehood, living in peace alongside Israel, then they were repeatedly offered by American presidents who opposed Netanyahu.
Jonathan TobinHOST
The political history of Israel would have played out very differently in the last 30 years since he won his first term in 1996.
Dan SenorHOST
Israeli elections have a history of producing outcomes that nobody anticipated and governments that look nothing like what voters thought they were voting for.
Dan SenorHOST
Remember two thousand and nine? Tzipi Livni's Kadima party, which had been a new party at the time, won the most seats in the Knesset, twenty-eight, compared to Netanyahu's twenty-seven seats.
Dan SenorHOST
But Netanyahu was the one who became prime minister because he could assemble a coalition and Livni could not.
Dan SenorHOST
Or take twenty twenty-one.
Dan SenorHOST
Israeli elections have a history of producing outcomes that nobody anticipated and governments that look nothing like what voters thought they were voting for.
Dan SenorHOST
Remember 2009? Tzipi Livni's Kadima party, which had been a new party at the time, won the most seats in the Knesset, 28, compared to Netanyahu's 27 seats.
Dan SenorHOST
But Netanyahu was the one who became prime minister because he could assemble a coalition of and Livni could not.
Dan SenorHOST
Or take 2021.
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