Tzipi Livni, whose newly created Hatnuah Party scored seven seats, is another potential Netanyahu ally.
He wants Mr Netanyahu to swap his hardline partners for Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadima party.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni may not be a crook, but she is a fraud.
The consultations are to take place among Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, says Israel has clear goals that the international community must help implement.
During his remarks, Arieli repeatedly argued that his position is the same as opposition leader Tzipi Livni's.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will meet Sarkozy in Paris on Thursday.
His comments did not square with those of Israel's Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.
Hatnua, the party of former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni who is focused on talks with Palestinians, gained seven seats.
It is not surprising that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are behaving in this manner.
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Last Friday it was disclosed that on Wednesday afternoon, Netanyahu had reopened coalition talks with Kadima leader Tzipi Livni.
Shalev's appointment to the UN was the work of Foreign Minister - and would-be prime minister - Tzipi Livni.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's failure to form a government proved that all roads do in fact lead to Jerusalem.
Despite Kadima leader Tzipi Livni's stunning electoral achievement, she cannot form a coalition.
Tzipi Livni, whose Hatnua party holds six seats, will be justice minister and chief negotiator in talks with the Palestinians.
Last week opposition leader and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni published a very odd op-ed in The New York Times.
Tzipi arrived with her parents in the early 1930s from Poland, just as the persecution of Jews there was escalating.
This was the message, too, that the foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, took to a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
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Opposition leader Tzipi Livni placed herself squarely in the Obama camp this week during her confrontation with Netanyahu at the Knesset.
He did not publicly criticize then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni's scandalously incompetent handling of the cease-fire negotiations at the UN Security Council.
At the meeting of foreign ministers on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni called her Arab counterparts to task for their discriminatory treatment.
As for opposition leader Tzipi Livni, the latest polls show her trailing far behind Netanyahu as the people's choice for prime minister.
Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres have all stated that Israel does not have a problem with AKP's Islamist character.
Reached within hours of the blast (this was one day before the ceasefire), Tzipi she said she would not alter her bus usage.
Yet Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and their cabinet colleagues consistently represent UNIFIL as an ally and have worked fastidiously to strengthen it.
The more likely contenders, Tzipi Livni of Kadima and Binyamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud party, have also stayed mum about the scandal.
The Labor party, like Lapid, stressed domestic problems while the new party Hatnua, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni focused on peace talks.
So the question then arises, why did Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak agree to have them come to Jerusalem?
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is slated to meet with former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei on Monday, said Aryeh Mekel, a spokesman for Livni.
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Tzipi Livni, Kadima's leader, has done well to hold her own ranks together, talking tough on security but consistently arguing for negotiation with the Palestinians.
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