Columbia International Affairs Online

CIAO DATE: 6/5/2007

Olmert After Winograd: A Battle for Survival

David Makovsky

2007 May

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

The just-released Winograd Report, an investigation of Israeli decisionmaking in the 2006 summer war with Hizballah, has put Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a battle for survival. Today, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni publicly called for Olmert's dismissal. Will the prime minister's tenure last beyond this growing crisis?