The Menachem Begin - Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence

Authors: Zvi Harry Hurwitz
Yisrael Medad
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House

Price: $24.95
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN 10: 965229456X
ISBN 13: 9789652294562
Catalog Number: 9789652294562

Description:
On a blustery Saturday night in mid November 1977, from the skies over Ben Gurion Airport just a few miles outside of Tel Aviv, a plane emerges and the unthinkable is about to happen:

• The year-1977.
• The Cold War is at its peak.
• New York City suffers a severe black-out and subsequent looting.
• Elvis Presley dies.
• British Airways introduces regular supersonic service on its new plane-CONCORD.
• Gary Gilmore becomes the first person executed in the United States since the death penalty is reestablished.
• The first Star Wars film is released.
• And a new dawn is about to emerge in the war torn Middle East...

This is the backdrop for the fascinating correspondence that takes place between Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat and the new Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

On a blustery Saturday night in mid November 1977, from the skies over Ben Gurion Airport just a few miles outside of Tel Aviv, a plane emerges and the unthinkable is about to happen:

Anwar El- Sadat the leader of the most powerful Arab country in the Mid-East, and Menachem Begin, son of a Polish green grocer are about to reshape history.

In this fascinating book, read the actual letters that these two leaders exchanged with each other from their first meeting in 1977 until the assasination of the Egyptian President in 1981.

Experience the game of ping pong, which took place between two giants of the 20th century who were attempting to make history.

Learn about how such delicate items such as a Palestinian State, the future of Jerusalem, and a nuclear Iraq were handled. Most importantly perhaps, in their own words, learn what was in the hearts and minds of these two statesmen as they weighed the future of their two peoples.

With comments from the following historic personalities:

• Michael Oren-current Israeli Ambassador to the United States and Author of Six Days of War
• Former Egyptian First Lady-Jihan Sadat
  
• Historian, Sir Martin Gilbert
• Benny Begin-current Minister in Israeli government, and son of the late Prime Minister
• Former President Jimmy Carter

Features:

• transcripts of speeches
• press conferences
• interviews
• official documents
• transcripts of speeches
  press conferences
• interviews
• official documents