Today in History 03/26/18

(From left) Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in a three-way handshake at the White House on March 26, 1979 (© AFP/Getty Images)(1979) Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty ends 30-year war
Seven months after meeting with US President Jimmy Carter for peace talks at Camp David, Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel sign a treaty ending decades of conflict between their two countries.
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 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and witnessed by United States president Jimmy Carter.
Sadat Carter Begin handshake
Library of Congress: “Photograph shows President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty on the grounds of the White House.”
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