Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, (l) U.S. President Jimmy Carter (center) and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shaking hands at the conclusion of the Camp David Peace Accords signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 17, 1978.
(JTA) - WASHINGTON (JTA) – Jimmy Carter, the one-term president who brokered the historic Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt but earned pariah status in some corners of the Jewish community for his criticisms of Israel, has died.
Carter, who had remained active into his final years despite a 2015 diagnosis of liver cancer, died Dec. 29, 2024, at 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his nonprofit announced.
Carter's work at Camp David in 1978 led to the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state and radically changed the landscape of the Middle East, diminishing - for the first...
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