Starting over Again few days, the Egyptian authorities arrested in internment camps more than 1000 people among Jews, European and political opponents. The foreign and Jewish communities became the main target. In 1970 after Nasser’s death, Anwar Al Sadat became President of Egypt. His policy consisted in a program of open doors to the western world and to Israel. On 19 November 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to ever visit Israel officially meeting with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The peace between the two countries was signed in 1979. The film took nine months of work, it has been shot directly in
Assassination of Anwar Sadat Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Following the Camp David Accords, Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. But the subsequent 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty was received with controversy among Arab nations, particularly the Palestinians. Egypt's membership in the Arab League was suspended (and not reinstated until 1989). PLO Leader Yasser Arafat said "Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last." In Egypt, various jihadist groups, such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, used the Camp David Accords to rally support for their cause. Previously sympathetic to Sadat's attempt to integrate