Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu�s special emissary negotiating the release of Gilad Shalit, Chaggai Hadas, is heading to Cairo for his first visit since assuming the post. The trip comes following an approximately 4-month hiatus in public efforts towards obtaining the soldier�s release.
No significant progress towards Shalit�s release is expected as a result of this visit, which appears to permit Hadas and the Egyptian to become acquainted with one-another and to permit Hadas to familiarize himself with the status of the talks as they were ended during the previous Olmert administration.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
