Word: elissar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed to proceed, 2½ hours behind schedule. Beneath a rapidly setting sun, Saad Afra, Egypt's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Israel's Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Director General of the Premier's Office, formally exchanged the ratified documents, making the treaty official at last...
Describing Egypt and Israel as "two ancient lands, two very old peoples, two civilizations, two historic neighbors." Chief Israeli Delegate Eliahu Ben-Elissar told his Egyptian hosts: "We come to renew an agelong relationship...