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… from Egypt. When Nasser died in September 1970, he was succeeded by a less flamboyantly militant vice-president, Anwar Sadat. Yet in both Egypt and Syria, a number of our air force pilots were still being held prisoner. I felt an especially strong motivation to help bring the pi...

…ypt–Israel Sinai Interim Agreement (4 September 1975) 918 Israel–Syria Separation of Forces Agreement (31 May 1974) 922 Sadat and Begin Speeches to Knesset (20 November 1977) 925 UN Security Council Resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) (19 March 1978) 941 Camp David Accords (17...

… the heels of a major new crisis in our peace with Egypt. Only weeks before I gave up my Sinai command, President Anwar Sadat was shot and killed by an extremist Muslim officer at the annual Cairo military parade to mark the anniversary of the 1973 war. Like many Israelis, I fel...

Rabin, too, puffing furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first,...

Rabin, too, puffing furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first,...

… home soon after we’d left. It, too had its roots in the 1973 war, but on the Arab side. Before the war, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat had extended feelers about the possibility of peace negotiations, only to see them ignored. Israel won the war in the end. But the Egyptians’ surprise att...

… ended in a political stand-off between Israel and its Arab adversaries. In November 1977, Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat broke Arab unity when he— in a move which stunned the world—flew to Israel and addressed the Knesset in a bid for a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israel...

assassination of Anwar Sadat on a calm afternoon in October 1981. Wisner arrived a few years later. Though not quite a friend, Wisner had cultivated a directness at least, with Mubarak. He’d become a mirror in which the Egyptian president might see how different stances towards A...

later inflicted heavy losses on one of Sadat’s armored forces

nerves over military maneuvers by Anwar Sadat a few weeks earlier. But that had come to nothing. In no small part due to the success of the raid on Rue Verdun, Israel’s generals believed the balance of strength and security was on our side and that, at least for a while, Israel c...

…committed to reaching a peace agreement. Yet I hoped it would at least provide the possibility, as it had for Begin and Sadat twenty-two years earlier, to reach a framework agreement that open the door to a final peace treaty. Not just the time, but the numbers were limited. We...

…. When we arrived, it was pouring with rain. The cabin assignments were also a surprise. I was given the one that Anwar Sadat had at the first Camp David summit in 1978. Arafat got Menachem Begin’s. Still, the cabins themselves, each named for a tree, were large and pleasant. Min...

before Begin and Sadat went to Camp David in 1978

with Sadat now pressing the Americans for a cease-fire and

I felt an almost familial sense of bereavement. Sadat was