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The opening as it read in 2005

The Israel - Egypt peace treaty was signed in Washington on March 26 , 1979 as the first of the Camp David Accords (1978) .¹ The main features of the treaty were the mutual recognition of each country by the other, the cessation of the state of war which had existed since 1948, and the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai territory which Israel had occupied since the 1967 war. The agreement also provided for the free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and recognition of the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways.² The agreement notably made Egypt the first Arab country to officially recognize Israel. Jordan would follow in 1994 with the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace .³

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The opening as it stood in 2010 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

The main features of the treaty were the mutual recognition of each country by the other, the cessation of the state of war that had existed since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , and the complete withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the rest of the Sinai Peninsula which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War in 1967. The agreement also provided for the free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and recognition of the Strait of Tiran , the Gulf of Aqaba and the Taba—Rafah straits as international waterways.

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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 .

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The opening as it stood in 2020

1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel 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 .

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023

1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel The Egypt–Israel peace treaty ( ; , 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 .

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The Egypt–Israel peace treaty 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 Anwar Sadat , President of Egypt , and Menachem Begin , Prime Minister of Israel , and witnessed by Jimmy Carter , President of the United States .

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