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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Carter Center confirms former president has died
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Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the US presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and who then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old.
The longest-lived American president died today, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023, spent most of their lives, the Carter Center says.
Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/aqYmcE9tXi
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) December 29, 2024
In the Middle East, the 39th president is best known for brokering peace between Israel and Egypt with the Camp David Accords, keeping Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy.
He later became a vocal and outspoken critic of Israel, publishing the 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” which sought to shift US support away from Jerusalem and toward the Palestinians.
The Times of Israel Community.