Jodi Rudoren of The New York Times writes that Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, will reenter the political arena as the head of a new party. However, polls suggest that the centrist Livni will have a hard time beating right-leaning and religious parties. “The only thing that Livni is capable of doing is splitting the ‘left’ bloc, not increasing it,” wrote Aviad Kleinberg, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, in a column.