On September 17, Tzipora "Tzipi" Livni was elected to head Israel’s ruling Kadima Party, succeeding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert resigned as party leader after an official investigative ccommission accused him of "serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence" during Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006. If Livni is able to establish a ruling coalition in the Knesset within 42 days… the deadline being October 29, just six days before the U.S. elections… she will become Israel’s first female prime minister since Golda Meir led Israel from March 1969 until June 1974. What is significant from the American perspective...