The videotape that broadcast the first sign of life from IDF Cpl. Gilad Schalit to his family last month, may have come as a result of a secret trip to Norway made by Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin and Gilad's father Noam Schalit

The two acknowledged Tuesday that they made the trip four days before the tape's release and met with Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store. During their meeting, the two requested that Store contact the Hamas leadership and pressure the organization to allow a Western envoy to meet with the kidnapped soldier to assess his medical condition.

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