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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100; Emergency officials confirm only 2 of the 181 people on board survived a plane crash in South Korea; A strong storm system’s moved across the southeastern U.

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 […]

Carter’s success at Camp David negotiating a Mideast Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was one of his ... s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin. Flanked by President Sadat and ...

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

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

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 ...