Egyptian and Israeli leaders ship condolences for Carter, who brokered their peace treaty

TEL AVIV, Israel — The leaders of Israel and Egypt despatched their condolences to former president Jimmy Carter’s household.

“His significant role in achieving the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain etched in the annals of history,” Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi mentioned in an announcement. “His enduring legacy ensures that he will be remembered as one of the world’s most prominent leaders in service to humanity.”

Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, wrote on social media web site X that Carter’s legacy “will be defined by his deep commitment to forging peace between nations.”

“In recent years I had the pleasure of calling him and thanking him for his historic efforts to bring together two great leaders, Start and Sadat, and forging a peace between Israel and Egypt that remains an anchor of stability throughout the Middle East and North Africa many decades later,” Herzog wrote, referring to former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Start and former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

One of many crowning overseas coverage achievements of Carter’s single time period as U.S. president was brokering a collection of agreements that later got here to be referred to as the Camp David accords in 1978. Named after the presidential retreat in Maryland, the agreements laid the idea for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel the 12 months after.

That treaty made Egypt the primary Arab nation to formally acknowledge the state of Israel, a transfer condemned by different Arab nations however which led to demilitarization of the Sinai Peninsula that lies between Israel and Egypt.

In a 2003 interview, Carter advised NPR, “the treaty that we worked out with Israel and Egypt… not a single word of it has been violated on either side.”