Camp David Accords, agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978 that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbors. Brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and officially titled the “Framework for Peace in the Middle-east,” U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1978 for their contributions to the agreements. 

The eventual outcome of these “Framework for Peace in the Middle-east,” had three parts : 

1. a process for Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza, 

2. a framework for the conclusion of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and 

3. a similar framework for peace treaties between Israel and its other neighbors. The Prime Minister and the Israeli Knesset agreed that a transitional self-governing Palestinian authority was to be elected to replace Israeli political and military forces in the occupied territories.