A 13-day retreat produced the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state

In September 1978, US President Jimmy Carter secluded Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for 13 tense days of negotiation. The resulting framework led to a formal peace treaty in 1979, returning the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for diplomatic recognition of Israel. Sadat and Begin shared the Nobel Peace Prize; Sadat was assassinated by Islamist militants two years later, partly over the deal.

— Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David — Knopf, 2014