Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. The treaty, a follow-up to the Camp David Accords, formalized the peace between the two neighbors; Israel agreed to relinquish the Sinai Peninsula while Egypt became the first Arab state to recognize Israel's sovereignty.
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