World Scene: Israel

Intrusion at Livni's home

A suspected break-in at Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's home on Monday intruded on her electioneering when bodyguards accidentally broadcast an alert over her telephone line as she gave a live radio interview.

Livni, a former Mossad spy who hopes to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a February 10 ballot, laughed as an unidentified man's voice was repeatedly heard summoning police to her house in Ramat Hahayal, a Tel Aviv suburb.