Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat took the following steps as a result of defeat in the 1973 war:

- In July 1977, he declared that he is ready to sign a peace agreement with the occupation entity if the Zionist forces withdrew from the occupied lands and the Sinai desert.

- On November 19, 1977, he traveled to the occupied territories and gave a speech at the Israeli Knesset.

- On September 17, 1978, he signed the Camp David Accords with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, with the mediation of US President Jimmy Carter.