The Knesset will mark the 40th anniversary of the visit of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to the Israeli parliament, a landmark event that heralded the peace agreement between the two nations.
Sadat’s November 20, 1977, speech before the Knesset “has become one of the defining moments in the history of Israel and the Knesset,” according to a Thursday statement to the press from the Knesset.
To remember the occasion, the Knesset will hold a conference on Tuesday, November 21, featuring speeches by Egypt’s ambassador to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog. It will be attended by cabinet ministers, scholars and journalists.
The day will also mark the installation in the Knesset of an exhibit by the Foreign Ministry of historic photographs from Sadat’s visits in 1977 and 1979.
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