Ruler
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
1918 – 1981
Lifespan; he ruled from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.
Biography
One of the Free Officers, he succeeded Nasser in 1970. He led Egypt in the October 1973 war, then pursued the economic "open door" policy, visited Jerusalem in 1977 and signed the peace treaty with Israel in 1979, through which Egypt recovered Sinai. He was assassinated on 6 October 1981.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Sadat signed the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in March 1979; he and Menachem Begin had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
- William B. Quandt (1986) “Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics” Brookings Institution