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1979 peace accords

People attend a presentation of a recreated war scene while visiting the "6th of October War Panorama" museum and memorial of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War in Cairo, Egypt, on October 1, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI/AFP)
October 1, 2023, 7:06 pm
‘Victory’ against Israel in 1973 war shaped Egypt but is now a fading memory
Current leader Sissi still uses conflict in effort to rally Egyptians, though figures show 85% of population was not alive at the time
By AFP and ToI Staff
Tiran Island, in the Red Sea, Egypt, February 10, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
May 26, 2022, 5:55 am
Senior US officials reportedly in Riyadh for talks on deal that’ll need Israeli nod
McGurk, Hochstein make covert trip in effort to finalize transfer of Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia; Israel hopes Riyadh will take steps toward normalization in tandem
By ToI Staff
This photo taken on January 14, 2014, through the window of an airplane, shows the Red Sea's Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Strait of Tiran between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. (Stringer/AFP)
May 24, 2022, 5:48 am
US said brokering talks to transfer islands from Egypt to Saudi with Israeli backing
Israel’s approval needed since Egypt agreed in 1979 peace treaty to demilitarize Red Sea’s Tiran and Sanafir; Jerusalem asks Riyadh, in exchange, to take steps toward normalization
By ToI Staff
Then-prime minister Menachem Begin (R) and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat share a laugh at the King David Hotel on November 19, 1977. (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO archive)
February 25, 2018, 5:55 pm
War or peace? IDF brass debated the meaning of Sadat’s 1977 visit to Israel
Newly released transcripts from meeting after Egyptian leader’s historic speech in the Knesset show generals were split on its significance
By Judah Ari Gross
Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)
November 9, 2017, 3:48 pm
Egyptian envoy hails peace with Israel as top officials snub memorial invite
Ambassador Hazem Khairat declares 1979 accord should serve as blueprint for wider Israeli-Arab peace, says ‘genuine and lasting’ peace still needed
By Tamar Pileggi
President Mahmoud Abbas commemorates Arafat's death, November 2008 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
April 18, 2017, 6:53 pm
Michael Oren: Palestinians were Six Day War’s ‘biggest winners’
Marking 50 years since ’67 conflict, deputy minister says it shaped Palestinian identity ‘as we know it’; Israel working on ‘diplomatic solution’
By Judah Ari Gross
In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)
October 20, 2016, 11:13 pm
Mossad man ‘met with Morsi on eve of his becoming Egypt president’
Muslim Brotherhood leader, later deposed by Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, reportedly told agent that ‘Israel not an enemy’
By Sue Surkes
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 22, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
September 27, 2016, 1:45 am
Saudi paper chides Palestinians for rejecting Netanyahu’s Knesset invite
Editorial in Saudi Gazette says historic visits such as that of Egypt’s Sadat to Israel ‘can bend the arc of history’
By ToI Staff
Undated image of Leon Charney in Times Square, New York (Wikimedia commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Leon H. Charney Media Foundation Inc.)
March 23, 2016, 7:10 pm
Leon Charney, TV show host and ‘unsung hero’ of Camp David, dies
New Yorker helped foster back-channel Israel-Egypt talks before 1979 deal; hailed by Carter for role in negotiations
By JTA
Haim Koren, Israeli ambassador to Egypt, October 2013 (screen capture/YouTube/medisraelforfred)
February 28, 2016, 11:23 pm
Israeli envoy to Egypt: I won’t be deterred by shoe-throwing
After Egyptian MP is attacked for hosting him, Haim Koren says he meets regularly with el-Sissi and ‘countries have shared interest in fighting terror’
By Tamar Pileggi
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from the balcony of his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo on November 29, 2014. (AFP/Al-Watan newspaper/Mohamed Nabil)
April 28, 2015, 2:23 pm
Mubarak: Israel tried to renege on part of ’79 peace deal
Ousted Egyptian president asserts Israel ‘deceptively’ laid claim to Taba, a small Sinai border town
By Tamar Pileggi
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, US president Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the north lawn of the White House as they sign the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, March 26, 1979. (AP/Bob Daugherty)
February 24, 2015, 11:16 pm
How Jimmy Carter vetoed the first Israeli envoy requested by Sadat
Ties with peripheral countries in the Middle East enabled Israel to make peace with Egypt, claims x-Mossad man Yossi Alpher in new book
By Elhanan Miller
Yuval Rabin visits the memorial to his father, slain Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2014. (Flash90)
October 30, 2014, 4:06 pm
‘Bilateralism has failed, time to bring in the Arab world,’ says Rabin’s son
Abbas alone cannot sign a deal on the thorny issues, says Yuval Rabin, insisting his father always had a regional approach to peace
By Elhanan Miller
Hezbollah fighters take an oath during a parade to continue the path of resistance against Israel. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
December 29, 2012, 10:48 am
Egypt’s envoy to Lebanon: Cairo will work with Hezbollah, ‘a real political and military force’
Trying to regain land occupied by Israel ‘is legal and legitimate,’ says ambassador; warming ties with terror group would mark a drastic change from the Mubarak era
By Michal Shmulovich
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/How Hwee Young)
September 9, 2012, 9:19 pm
Morsi pledges to respect treaty with Israel
Egypt president assures Israel he intends to abide by the 1979 accords
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