The president wanted Jews out of the West Bank. The prime minister went only as far as the Sinai.

As noted by diplomat Dennis Ross: “He [Carter] is the hero of Camp David, and the agreements would never have emerged without him. He played the role of mediator, often explaining each to the other. He literally drafted the Egyptian-Israeli part of the accords and held the summit together at the moments when it might otherwise have collapsed.”

President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.

Jimmy Carter’s legacy of radical pragmatism enabled him to broker peace between Egypt and Israel, and his approach can serve as a model for current leaders to address the Israeli-Palestinian

With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.

Over the years I would see more and more of Jimmy Carter. His long life was one of service, supporting human rights and working for peace.

PLAINS, Ga. — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to ...

Asked once if his 12-year-old daughter, Amy, ever brags about her father being president, Jimmy Carter said she didn’t. If anything, he added, “she probably apologizes.” It was the summer of 1979, and the election in which Carter would lose in 44 of 50 states was more than a year away,

Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, discusses Carter's achievements and challenges during his presidency.

Since the news of Jimmy Carter’s death on Dec. 29, local artist and illustrator Nip Rogers has been thinking of the images that defined Carter’s life and presidency. There’s an image of President Carter standing between Egypt’s President Anwar el-Sadat and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the Camp David summit.

President Jimmy Carter did more for the security of Israel than any American president other than Harry Truman.