Tzipi Livni.
There is a chance you are puzzled, and are thinking "is Tzipi Livni a curse word, and what does it mean?"
Livni is the foreign minister of Israel, and who is the leading candidate to take over as the prime minister from Ehud Olmert, who has been forced to leave because of corruption scandals.
Less than a month ago, when Forbes published its list of 100 most powerful women in the world, Germany's Angela Merkel came in #1 for the third year in a row. Livni was a distant 51 in the Forbes ranking. As Forbes reported, Livni "backs a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian standoff and is working with the U.S. to get a framework by year's end. Livni is also on board with Israel's negotiations with Syria. Controversially, she supported July's prisoner-casualty swap with Hezbollah."If Livni becomes the prime minister--and I hope she does, particularly when I think of characters like Netanyahu!--then she will be one important and influential player in the world. While we play up the Russian boogeyman here in the US, the geopolitical tensions are nothing compared to the Israel/Palestinian issue and the entire Middle East, and the India/Pakistan tensions.
The New York Times magazine had a lengthy piece on her a year ago. If elected as prime minister, she will be the second most, or even the most, powerful woman in 2009. Be nice to her :-)
BTW, who do you think is the #2 in the current Forbes list?
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