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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Camp David Accords

Then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a debate in the Knesset on March 20, 1979. (AP Photo/Max Nash/File)
April 16, 2023, 9:37 pm
Aides speak of ex-PM Begin’s depression, dysfunction near end of time in office
Biographer says signs of mental illness were ‘very clear’ as premier struggled with Lebanon War fallout, wife’s death; in unaired interview segment, Begin said he took pills
By Michael Horovitz
In an Oct. 30, 2012, file photo, former Vice President Walter Mondale, a former Minnesota senator, gestures while speaking at a Students for Obama rally at the University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. (AP/Jim Mone, File)
April 20, 2021, 4:39 am
Walter Mondale, Carter VP who played key role in Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 93
While liberal icon may be more known as loser of lopsided presidential election, his close ties to US Jewry earned him trust of Israeli defense minister at Camp David
By AP and ToI Staff
Former Florida Senator Richard Stone holds up lists of the names of Latin American officials during his nomination hearing to become Ambassador at Large for Central America before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 20, 1983 on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)
July 30, 2019, 3:53 pm
Florida’s first Jewish senator since Civil War dies at 90
A member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Stone was an adviser on the 1978 Camp David Accords
By JTA
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)
December 18, 2018, 12:22 am
Trump signs law conferring Congressional Gold Medal on Anwar Sadat
US Congress approves honor for late Egyptian president, ahead of 40th anniversary of 1979 peace treaty with Israel
By Ron Kampeas
An Egyptian man chants slogans as he hold a shoe with an Israeli flag drawn on it during an anti-Israel protest held after the Friday noon prayer at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
September 16, 2018, 6:57 am
Four decades after Camp David, Egyptians still chilly toward Israel
While ties are normalized on paper, on the streets of Cairo many shun the neighboring country over its policies toward Palestinians
By Mona Salem and Aziz El Massassi
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)
July 29, 2018, 11:38 pm
Newly released minutes show US pressure on Israel to leave West Bank in ’78
Marking 40 years to Camp David accords, the Center for Israel Education is rolling out memos detailing negotiations that led to Israel-Egypt peace treaty
By Eric Cortellessa
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron Trump board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 17, 2017, en route to Camp David in Maryland. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
June 18, 2017, 4:02 am
In first, Trump dumps Mar-a-Lago for Camp David getaway
President makes first appearance at retreat best known for Israeli-Egyptian peace talks, skipping own palatial properties in Florida and New Jersey
By Catherine Lucey
The Red Sea islands of Tiran, in the foreground, and Sanafir, in the background, sit at the the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
January 16, 2017, 12:52 pm
Egypt court bars islands transfer to Saudi Arabia
Plan to hand over Tiran and Sanafir was publicly opposed by many Egyptians; decision likely to impact ties with Saudis
By AFP
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (right), shakes hands with Israeli then-foreign minister Shimon Peres (left) after their meeting at Gaza International Airport, southern Gaza Strip, September 26, 2001. (AP/Laurent Rebours, File)
October 11, 2016, 9:54 pm
Peres to Begin in 1978: I’m against an Arafat state
Newly declassified minutes of meeting before Camp David peace talks with Egypt show late Israeli statesman opposing ‘another Palestinian country’
By ToI Staff
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at Ashe Power House Theater while campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on March 4, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana (Josh Brasted/Getty Images via JTA)
May 14, 2016, 3:53 am
Bill Clinton defends his and Hillary’s Israel record, spars with heckler over Gaza
‘I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state,’ former president says at rally after audience member critical of US policy interrupts him
By Eric Cortellessa
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
Former US diplomat Harold Saunders, who helped broker Israel-Egypt peace, in a 2012 panel discussion aired on C-SPAN. (Screen capture/C-SPAN)
From the WebMarch 10, 2016, 5:47 am
Harold Saunders, US diplomat who helped broker Israel-Egypt peace, dies
85-year-old former US negotiator during Iran hostage crisis was at the center of US foreign policy in the Middle East for two decades, The Washington Post reports
In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo, an Egyptian armored vehicle is seen on the Egyptian side of the border across from Rafah in north Sinai. (Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shorouk Newspaper/AP)
August 20, 2015, 12:01 pm
Report of possible US pullout from Sinai ‘untrue,’ Israel says
American officials were said to be reconsidering deployment over fears of rising jihadist violence in peninsula
By ToI Staff and AP
President Anwar Sadat stands in his car during his visit to Mansura, Lower Egypt in December 1978. (AP Photo/Bill Foley)
May 27, 2015, 12:33 am
‘Sadat’s limo’ goes on sale for $108,000
Cadillac S75 Fleetwood belonging to assassinated Egyptian leader was apparently a gift from Jimmy Carter
By ToI Staff
Soldiers practice in an IDF drill in the Gaza border Division on March 22, 2015. The drill was meant to reenact scenarios following lessons learnt from last summer's Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: IDF spokesman)
April 29, 2015, 6:05 am
IDF training to retake Gaza in possible future round with Hamas
Eight months after conflict, Islamic group again digging terror tunnels, developing Iran-funded advanced missiles and drones
By Elhanan Miller
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