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Wednesday, February 08, 2012 

Gilad Shalit meets the French president

The Shalits met with Sarkozy who'd made efforts to get the son freed:
Former kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit flew to Paris Wednesday to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He and his parents, Noam and Aviv, are citizens of France.

The soldier, whose freedom was secured last October in a deal to release 1,027 Palestinian Authority terrorists from Israeli prisons, met with Sarkozy at Elysee Palace.
The French president made a number of diplomatic efforts on his behalf to pressure the Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza into freeing the kidnapped soldier. He felt grateful and proud, he said, to learn that Sarkozy had referred to him as a "son of France."

Shalit and his parents are also set to be honored Wednesday night at the annual dinner for the Representataive Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF). However, the younger Shalit himself will not be in attendance at the affair, said his family, as "his health does not allow it."'
Gilad was very lucky the French president helped him too.

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