Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Menachem Begin meeting with Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat at Camp David in 1978, signed in black felt tip, “Best wishes, Jimmy Carter” and “Mr. Lowenherz, let peace and love prevail, A. Sadat, 20. 12. 980,” who also signs in Arabic, and in blue felt tip, “M. Begin,” who also signs in Hebrew. Reverse bears an affixed picture caption and a Three Lions, Inc. label. In fine condition, with a small crease, and associated short tear, in the top border. The first fully signed example of this iconic photo that we have ever offered.
In 1978, President Carter hosted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for clandestine peace talks. Six months later, on March 26, 1979, Begin and Sadat met in Washington, DC, to sign the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, for which the two won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Committee Chairman Aase Lionaes described them as such:
‘Never has the Nobel Committee considered it apposite to award the Peace Prize to statesmen from the troubled and sadly devastated Middle East. Never has the Prize been closely associated with agreements such as the two Camp David agreements, which provide the basis for the award to the two statesmen on whose shoulders such grave responsibilities have fallen. Never has the Peace Prize expressed a greater or more audacious hope—a hope of peace for the people of Egypt, for the people of Israel, and for all the peoples of the strife-torn and war-ravaged Middle East. The award of the Prize to the President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, is moreover historical in the wider sense, in that we only know of one previous peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. This, as Israeli scholars have revealed, took place some 3,000 years ago; it was the peace concluded between King David’s son, wise King Solomon, and the Egyptian Pharaoh.’
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