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Camp David

A man rides his motorbike past a banner depicting the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C), assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei (2nd R), and his son, current leader Mojtaba Khamenei (R), displayed along a street in Tehran on May 25, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP) /
May 26, 2026, 11:33 pm
Rubio says Iran negotiations will take ‘a few days’ as Tehran vows response to US strikes
Trump to hold cabinet meeting at White House on Wednesday as talks reach critical point; Iranians allowed back online as some restrictions lifted
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Stuart Eizenstat poses for a photograph during an International Conference on Welfare for Holocaust Survivors in Prague, Czech Republic, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 5, 2025, 10:09 am
Jewish Camp David broker chronicles 50 years of world-changing negotiations
In ‘The Art of Diplomacy,’ longtime US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat draws on interviews with 130 global players to highlight the most important agreements of the last half-century
By Rich Tenorio
Then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, right, US President Jimmy Carter, center, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, clasp hands on the North Lawn of the White House as they completed signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in Washington, March 26, 1979. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
December 30, 2024, 12:55 am
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 100
One-term president from small-town Georgia hosted PM Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat for talks at Camp David to reach landmark peace deal five years after Yom Kippur War
By Bill Barrow
Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000. (William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
January 22, 2021, 2:50 pm
Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks
In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ehud Barak, left, with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat (photo credit: Sharon Farmer)
January 15, 2020, 6:13 pm
Fatah official: Arafat hinted for us to launch Second Intifada after Camp David
Abd Elah al-Atira also says late Palestinian leader encouraged deadly riots following opening of Western Wall tunnels in 1996
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)
August 3, 2019, 12:23 pm
Netanyahu reportedly requests meeting with Jordan’s Abdullah, is rejected
Amman said to even refuse phone call between leaders ‘in light of difficult relations’; Jordan won’t attend reported Camp David meet if it’s ‘just a photo op,’ says Arabic paper
By ToI Staff
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listens as US President Donald Trump, left, announces a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House on October 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
July 31, 2019, 7:45 pm
White House denies plans for summit with Arab leaders to roll out peace plan
US official refutes Israeli newspaper report that Camp David conference in the works, says envoys will discuss ‘next steps’ with president after visit to Jordan, Israel
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, December 17, 2017, after returning from Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
July 31, 2019, 9:50 am
US planning to roll out peace plan at meeting with Arab leaders – report
Israeli paper says invitations to be extended by Kushner during Middle East trip this week, Netanyahu helped plan conference but unlikely to attend
By ToI Staff
Egypt's president Anwar Sadat, left, shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, right, as US president Jimmy Carter looks on, in September 1978. (AP)
February 10, 2019, 4:40 am
Can Camp David recreate Begin-Sadat magic for America’s own divisions?
White House convening Democrats and Republicans at rustic Maryland retreat, long used for Mideast peace negotiations, in hopes of building bipartisan relationships
By Jill Colvin and LISA MASCARO
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat waves goodbye before departing Ben Gurion Airport on November 21, 1977 (Miki Tzarfati/GPO archive)
November 21, 2017, 7:16 pm
When Anwar Sadat came to Jerusalem 40 years ago
Snapshots from historic visit by Egypt’s president capture a laugh with Menachem Begin, cheering schoolchildren throwing flowers, and reporters frantically filing their stories
By ToI Staff
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
A picture taken on November 9, 2016 shows a large printed photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hanging outside a door leading to a recreation of the small bedroom where he spent his final years at the new Arafat Museum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
November 10, 2016, 1:16 am
Interactive Arafat Museum opens in Ramallah
PA President Abbas attends ribbon-cutting ceremony in Ramallah as PLO leader’s possessions go on display
By AFP and 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
Marine One is staged on the tarmac as President Barack Obama arrives on Air Force One at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
April 21, 2016, 5:59 pm
Obama, Gulf allies meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss security
Gathering reflects effort by White House to reassure Mideast countries that US remains committed to them
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and Adam Schreck
Then-vice president Dick Cheney watches a TV broadcast of the Twin Towers burning following the attack on New York on September 11, 2001. (US National Archives)
July 25, 2015, 3:30 pm
A presidency horrified: New images offer inside look at Bush administration on 9/11
Pictures show president, senior staff at White House grappling with immediate aftermath of terror attacks on New York, Washington
By ToI Staff
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