Normally security alerts in Israel, especially one involving the Prime Minister, are no laughing matter.
But today acting Israeli Prime Minister Tzipi Livni laughed off an incident in which her live radio interview was interrupted by security guards who accidentally picked up the phone.
A suspected break-in at Ms Livni's home today put her security staff on high alert.
During her interview on Army Radio, an unidentified man's voice was heard repeatedly summoning police to her house in Ramat Hahayal, a Tel Aviv suburb.
'Everything's okay, I'm here,' she told the programme by phone, speaking from her office while the messages 'Intruder alert' and 'foreign minister's house at Ramat Hahayal' sounded in the background.
'You see, all this security and now everyone knows where I live,' Ms Livni quipped.
She then offered to call back on her cellphone so the interview could go on uninterrupted. The radio programme later explained that an alarm button had been accidentally pressed at her home.
Ms Livni is a former Mossad spy and current Foreign Minister who hopes to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in election this 10 February.
