Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty The Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty (, "Mu`āhadat as-Salām al-Misrīyah al-'Isrā'īlīyah"; , "Heskem HaShalom Bein Yisrael LeMitzrayim") was signed in Washington, D.C., United States on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and witnessed by United States president Jimmy Carter. The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed 16 months after Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in 1977 after intense negotiation. The main features of the treaty were mutual recognition, cessation of the state of war that had
Menachem Begin Fifth Horseman" by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, and the science fiction novel "Worldwar: Volume 4: " by Harry Turtledove. Begin was played by David Opatoshu in the 1977 TV film "Raid on Entebbe" and by Barry Morse in the 1983 miniseries "Sadat". Chris Claremont, longtime writer of the "X-Men" comic book, has said that Begin reminds him of the character Magneto. In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Bart Simpson is prescribed square, black-rimmed eyeglasses for his lazy eye, and the doctor tries to comfort him by saying that "Menachem Begin wore a pair just like them." A stage play,