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Tzipi Livni
Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni
, (born July 8,
1958
in
Tel Aviv
) is a former
Israeli
politician. She was political leader of
HaTnu'a
("The Movement").
Livni served both in the
army
and in the
Mossad
. Afterwards she studied law at
Bar-Ilan University
and worked as a
lawyer
.
From 1999 to 2012 and 2013 to 2019 she was a Member of
Knesset
.
In the 2000s she was in government, including the jobs of justice and
foreign minister
. During the
Second Netanyahu Government
(2009-2013) she was leading the parliamentarian opposition. In 2013 she joined the
Third Netanyahu Government
by becoming
justice minister
. In 2014 the Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
accused her and
Yesh Atid
leader
Yair Lapid
of trying to bring down his cabinet. They were sent away, which resulted in the downfall of his cabinet.
Originally she was a
HaLikud
politician, but in 2005 she joined
Kadima
. In 2012 she founded HaTnu'a. In the 2015 elections HaTnu'a formed one list with
HaAvoda
(Israeli Labor Party) and
HaTnu'a HaYeruqa
("The Green Movement"), called
HaMahaneh HaTziyoni
("The Zionist Union"). In the 20th Knesset she was leading this list with (former) HaAvoda leader
Yitzhak Herzog
.
Livni is in favour of the
two-state solution
, besides the
State of Israel
an independent
State of Palestine
. As a minister she spoke frequently with Palestinian politicians to achieve this goal.