One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

Mr. Carter invited Mr. Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to a summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, and offered to serve as a mediator. It was not Mr. Carter’s first foray into Egyptian-Israeli diplomacy and it would not be his last.

“We will always remember President Carter’s role in forging the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, a peace ...

President Jimmy Carter's crowning foreign policy achievement, the Camp David Accords of 1978, was the first peace agreement brokered in the Middle East since Israel became a nation in 1948.

Carter was a former president with a foreign policy focusing on the Middle East during his tenure and was outspoken about Middle East politics for the remainder of his life.

The passing of Jimmy Carter is a good time to recognize the former president’s involvement in the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, an accomplishment for which Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 (“Jimmy Carter ...

However, it was partially his own fault when that tenacity went too far for many in the pro-Israel community. THEN-PRIME minister Menachem Begin (right) and then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat ...

President Carter announced to the world Sunday night that a “framework for peace” in the Middle East had been reached at his summit meeting with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem ...

Forging peace between Israel and Egypt required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling and law-obeying from President Carter

Menachem Begin made an important point near the end of the Camp David negotiations.