Although she failed in her 2009 bid to become prime minister of Israel, former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni is getting a chance to step into the premier’s shoes in this week’s war games simulation at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.
The simulation, entitled “The Isolation of Israel: The Day After,” will take place on Tuesday, and boasts an impressive list of participants who will role-play Israeli, US, Palestinian, Hamas, Turkish, EU, and other international representatives.
Participants will have to cope with scenarios such as evacuation of settlements, contested land in the West Bank, international arrest warrants, economic embargoes, and the like.
Livni, who plays the Israeli prime minister, will be joined by former IDF spokesman MK Nahman Shai, former ambassador Zalman Shoval, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs president and diplomat Dore Gold, former aide to Prime Minister Yoaz Hendel, and diplomat Alon Liel, among others.
Livni, who was foreign minister under former prime minister Ehud Olmert, won the popular vote in the 2009 elections, but was unable to form a coalition and the premiership went to Benjamin Netanyahu. She lost the leadership of the Kadima party to Shaul Mofaz in the end of March this year, and shortly thereafter retired from political life.
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