"Baruch Haba HaNasi Sadat" / "Merhaba Sadat" ["Welcome Sadat"]. Printed Newspaper Broadsheet. Issue of Maariv newspaper announcing Sadat's historic visit to Israel

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

November 18th

Tel Aviv

1977

Hebrew text. Bilingual headline, Hebrew and Arabic in red

Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat took the Israeli public by surprise when he boldly announced his desire to address the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, concerning his proposed peace with Israel. The headline notes that the plane due to bring an entourage of 60 Egyptians to Ben Gurion airport, would be the first civilian Eyptian aircraft to land in Israel since the establishment of the State. In years to come, Sadat's peace with Israel would alienate Egypt from the rest of the Arab world and develop into a rather cold state of affairs