PM sends condolences on Carter’s death: Israel-Egypt peace treaty ‘offers hope for future generations’

By Lazar Berman

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30 December 2024, 10:55 am

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, left, US president Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. (AP/ Bob Daugherty)

In a terse message apparently from his hospital bed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends the Israeli government’s condolences to the American people and the Carter family on the death of former US president Jimmy Carter.

“We will always remember President Carter’s role in forging the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, a peace treaty that has held for nearly half a century and offers hope for future generations,” Netanyahu writes on X.

Carter, the longest-lived former US president, who became a vocal critic of Israel in his later years, died yesterday at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100.

Netanyahu is recovering in the hospital after prostate removal surgery at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem yesterday.