Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, this week to try to help Israelis and Palestinians prepare for the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the State Department said Monday. Ms. Rice leaves Friday for a one-week trip that will also take her to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Europe, where she will visit Brussels for an international conference on Iraq and London for the meeting of the Group of 8 foreign ministers. Full Story