With just two days left in office, Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni gathered close to 30 party officials at her private residence in Tel Aviv for a determined pep-talk.
"It was important for me to bring you all together ahead of this coming week, which won't be easy for any of us. I know that it isn't easy to leave a state ministry," she told the assembled crowd, adding that Kadima's decision for walking away from the new government was the right one. "It a testament to what Kadima is," she said.
Livni ended by promising those assembled that she would lead "a strong fighting opposition, an opposition that has something to say and something to offer. Kadima will be the movement that acts not only in the Knesset – it will be a social movement that stands as an alternative and that will show people what can and should be here."
