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| ANWAR AL SADAT- THE PEACEMAKER |
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| President of Egypt, serving from October 15, 1970 until his assassination. He is considered to be one of the most important and influential Egyptian and Arab figures in modern history. On November 19, 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sadat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing of a peace treaty in Washington, D.C. in 1979. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| For his efforts, Sadat won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
At home, there was considerable domestic opposition, especially among fundamentalist Muslim groups. October 6, 1981, Sadat died at the hands of fundamentalist assassins during a military review celebrating the 1973 Suez crossing. |
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| SADAT WAS TIMES' 1977 PERSON OF THE YEAR |
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