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News in Brief Palestinian sources have said that Hamas is willing to show flexibility over a prisoner swap deal, which may facilitate the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported yesterday. The paper said Hamas had told Egypt it is willing to continue negotiations over the release of Shalit in exchange for a lull in the fighting in the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz Staff) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Israel to try and give peace talks another push. Rice touched down late yesterday and headed directly to Jerusalem for dinner with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. She hopes to move peace talks between Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas along faster, and monitor progress on the ground. Olmert and Abbas are scheduled to meet tomorrow. In a busy day today, Rice will hold several meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. (AP) Advertisement Egyptian opposition MPs demanded that the government cease exporting natural gas to Israel, and plan to convene a special session today to discuss the matter. Husan Ibrahim, an MP who represents the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic opposition movement, dismissed government claims that private companies, and not the state, are providing natural gas to Israel. Last Thursday, the Egyptian natural gas consortium EMG began exporting to Israel Electric power stations in Ashdod and Tel Aviv. (Avi Bar-Eli) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was invited by her Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit to visit Cairo, during a meeting with him at the conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority in London over the weekend. Livni will visit Sharm el-Sheikh on May 19, as part of the World Economic Forum taking place this year in Egypt. Livni also met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan to discuss joint economic projects, as well as talks with the PA and Syria. (Avi Issacharoff) Members of Israel's Ethiopian community are threatening to shut down all the immigrant absorption centers in the country and go in a convoy to Jerusalem if the government implements its decision to stop bringing Falashmura Ethiopians to Israel next month. Some 600 Ethiopians rallied Friday in Tel Aviv and suggested moves like a hunger strike outside the Knesset, and demonstrations in Jerusalem with 50,000 immigrants. Shas leader Eli Yishai will go to Ethiopia in a few weeks to study the matter in person. (Haaretz Staff) Russian tourists will begin arriving on one-day trips this month through Turkey. As part of vacation packages to Antalya, they will get charter flights to Israel, visit sites sacred to Christianity, then visit the Dead Sea and return to Turkey at night. (Zohar Blumenkrantz) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Under probe Olmert stays focused on work despite new allegations. Taxi Hamas Hamas police cars serve as taxis in fuel-starved Gaza.

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