One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

That’s the claim being made by a veteran political science professor in Israel who authored a book on the peace negotiations.

After Carter stepped down as president in 1981, he became one of Israel’s most outspoken critics and one of the Palestinians' most vocal supporters.

In Walter Mondale’s posthumous eulogy for Jimmy Carter, published yesterday by The New York Times, he summed up the record of their administration: “We told the truth, we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace.” It sounds so simple. But how they kept the peace—or more precisely, forged peace between Israel and Egypt—required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling […]

Forging peace between Israel and Egypt required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling and law-obeying from President Carter

Dr. Kenneth Stein, former Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center from 1982-2006 and Carter’s primary Middle East adviser until 1994, gives a unique perspective on the former president's legacy.

A truly dramatic moment in Jewish history was Menachem Begin's 'mahapach' (electoral upheaval of May, 1977). Begin entered office as prime minister shortly after that. However, let's not forget ...

Carter, 100, the nation’s 39th president who died on Sunday, famously brokered a Middle East peace deal between Israel and Egypt in 1978, normalized relationships with mainland China that began earlier in the 1970s when Richard Nixon visited the communist country, and signed a treaty that gave Panama control of the Panama Canal.

We will always remember President Carter’s role in forging the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, a peace ...

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