Camp David Accords

From 5 to 17 September 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter hosted Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. After 13 days of tense talks, in which Carter shuttled between the two leaders' cabins and Sadat at one point prepared to leave, they signed two frameworks at the White House: one for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, based on full Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, and one for autonomy for the Arab residents of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza.

The talks followed Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem and his speech in the Knesset in November 1977. Begin and Sadat shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, and the first framework led to the peace treaty of March 1979, the first between Israel and an Arab state, while the autonomy plan was never implemented. The accords set the model of land for peace, and Sadat paid with his life, assassinated by Islamist officers in 1981.