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.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the Camp David Accords and 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt but who had a complex relationship with Israel in his post-White House years, died on Sunday at 100.

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

Carter was a former president with a foreign policy focusing on the Middle East during his tenure and was outspoken about Middle East politics for the remainder of his life.

Mr. Carter invited Mr. Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to a summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, and offered to serve as a mediator. It was not Mr. Carter’s first foray into Egyptian-Israeli diplomacy and it would not be his last.

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.

The passing of Jimmy Carter is a good time to recognize the former president’s involvement in the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, an accomplishment for which Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 (“Jimmy Carter ...

President Carter announced to the world Sunday night that a “framework for peace” in the Middle East had been reached at his summit meeting with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem ...

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

Jimmy Carter became known for his post-presidential work as a humanitarian, but don't overlook his achievements while in office.

President Jimmy Carter's crowning foreign policy achievement, the Camp David Accords of 1978, was the first peace agreement brokered in the Middle East since Israel became a nation in 1948.