Haaretz reports that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must resign in the face the "Winograd report" that criticized Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz for rushing into war with Hezbollah last summer without having a detailed plan for retrieving two Israeli soldiers captured by the terrorist group or protecting Israel from rocket attacks.

Turmoil has come over Olmert's cabinet in recent days with rumors that Livni and Peretz's resignations were coming soon, but so far have not yet happened.

Peretz is a member of the Labor Party, which will hold a primary election on May 28 that will likely replace him. Livni and Olmert are both members of the Kadima Party, formed by Ariel Sharon in 2005 mainly to support withdrawal from Gaza and construction of barriers on the West Bank.

MSNBC reports that "Kadima could still potentially replace Olmert without elections, but the front-runner to replace him, Livni, could encounter difficulty in keeping the current coalition together," because an ultra-Orthodox party would have trouble "serving under a woman," a nationalist party may be "wary of cooperating with Livni, who is more dovish than Olmert." (Livni has been seen as an "up-and-coming" star in Kadima, serving as justice and foreign minister.) Recent polls show two-thirds of Israelis want Olmert to step down and that former PM and Likud hawk Benjamin Netanyahu would win in a new round of elections.