Israel-Egypt peace treaty הסכם השלום עם מצרים

Signed on 26 March 1979 at the White House by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, with President Jimmy Carter as witness, following the Camp David Accords. Egypt became the first Arab state to recognize Israel. Israel returned all of Sinai by April 1982, evacuating its towns there, among them Yamit, and a multinational force still monitors the border. The peace has often been cold, but it has held through wars and revolutions.