(1978) Two agreements reached between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar el-S 0101; d 0101; t of Egypt with the help of U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, Md.
, U.S. One agreement created a framework for negotiations to arrive at a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, formally ending some 30 years of being in a state of war. This treaty, normalizing relations, was signed in 1979 and led to the return of the Sinai Peninsula , occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War (1967), to Egypt. The other agreement created a framework for a broader peace in the region that included a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . The latter provisions were not implemented. See also Moshe Dayan .