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Anticipating that any major news developments in the Middle East would revolve around the leaders of Egypt and Israel, TIME Picture Editor John Durniak last July commissioned Photographer David Hume Kennerly to shoot a portfolio of pictures of both President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin. Durniak's prescience paid off. Our cover story this week on the Egyptian President and his mission to Jerusalem is enhanced by four pages of Kennerly's intimate color photographs of Sadat and his Israeli host...
...Sabbath?the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"?to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...
...moment?the first visit ever of an Arab leader to the Jewish state?and Israelis could scarcely believe what they were seeing. Egypt has been an implacable enemy in four bitter Arab-Israeli wars that have cost countless thousands of lives and casualties on both sides, yet there was Anwar Sadat standing solemnly at attention as a military band played both the Egyptian national anthem and the Israeli Hatikvah. In the background, gunners fired off a 21-gun salute...
Even as a youth, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...
...near the border. That led to a second Israeli bombing raid. The fedayeen were ordered to cease firing by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Earlier in the week, Arafat had been present at an extraordinary nationally televised address to the Egyptian parliament by President Anwar Sadat, who did not even mention the air raids that had just taken place in Lebanon. Declared Sadat: "There is no time to lose. I am ready to go to their house, to the Knesset, to discuss peace with the Israeli leaders...