Menachem Begin Signed ‘Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty’ Department of State Booklet.

BEGIN, Menachem.

Item Number: 146734

Washington, D.C.: The Department of State, 1979.

Rare official U. S. Department of State booklet from the April 1979 issue printed by the Bureau of Public Affairs Office of Public Communication. Imperial octavo, official Department of State Publication, 28 pages, containing a copy of the full treaty, annexes I through III, a list of agreed minutes, various copies of letters between Carter, Sadat, and Begin, and remarks made by the three leaders after the signing of the treaty, illustrated with a black and white photograph of Prime Minister Menachem Begin joining hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and American President Jimmy Carter, signed by Begin below in black felt tip, “M. Begin.” In fine condition. Rare and desirable signed. 

Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of the major right-wing political party Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. His most significant achievement as Prime Minister was the signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he and Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Prize for Peace. The agreement provided for free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal, and recognition of the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways, which had been blockaded by Egypt in 1967. The agreement also called for an end to Israeli military rule over the Israeli-occupied territories and the establishment of full autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of the territories, terms that were not implemented but which became the basis for the Oslo Accords.