1978 — The Camp David Accords

On September 17, 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations. United States President Jimmy Carter mediated the talks at the Camp David presidential retreat, shuttling between two leaders who barely spoke to each other directly.

The accords provided a framework for peace in the Middle East and committed Israel to withdraw from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. The deal led directly to the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty — the first between Israel and an Arab state — and won Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize. Egypt was suspended from the Arab League for a decade.