Derekh Eretz Zutta Eretz Zuta" was commissioned to commemorate the signing of the peace treaty between the State of Israel and Egypt. Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel presented copies to President Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt at El Arish, May 27, 1979. This book was designed, handwritten and illuminated by Zvi Narkiss. The slipcase is solid olive wood, brown velour lining, brass plaque on front. Derekh Eretz Zutta Derekh Eretz Zutta (Hebrew: מסכת דרך ארץ זוטא) is a non-canonical tractate of the Babylonian Talmud. The name is misleading in more than one respect; the word "zuṭa" (small) would seem
History of modern Egypt the disastrous Six-Day War of 1967, Egypt waged a War of Attrition in the Suez Canal zone. In 1971, three years into this war, Sadat endorsed in a letter the peace proposals of UN negotiator Gunnar Jarring, which seemed to lead to a full peace with Israel on the basis of Israel's withdrawal to its pre-war borders. This peace initiative failed as neither Israel nor the United States of America accepted the terms as discussed then. To provide Israel with more incentive to negotiate with Egypt and return the Sinai to it, and also because the Soviets had refused Sadat’s