Noam Schalit, father of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalt, on Wednesday met with former senior Mossad official Hagai Hadas, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's newly-appointed special envoy to the Hamas-Egypt talks on the release of the captive. Following the meeting, Schalit told reporters that he still didn't have a reason to be optimistic regarding the fate of his son, saying "there is not yet any renewed sense of hope."