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Throughout, the Israelis have tended to embrace their new partner with the ardor of a zealous suitor. The Egyptians, however, have responded by blowing hot and cold. Explains Israel's Ambassador to Egypt, Eliahu Ben Elissar: "We were ready to dance in the streets when the Egyptian flag was raised in Israel. But the Egyptians had not spent their lives dreaming of seeing the Israeli flag in Cairo. That was the beginning of the asymmetry, and it has continued to this...
...Cairo, meanwhile, Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar, 48, bounded up the steps of Abdin Palace to present his credentials-along with those of new envoys of two other nations-to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. After an honor guard played the national anthems of Israel and Egypt, Sadat warmly shook hands with the bearded Israeli Ambassador and applauded the two countries' "determination to live together in peace and harmony." Ben Elissar both startled and pleased Sadat by asking his permission to place a wreath at a memorial to Egypt's unknown soldier...
...President Anwar Sadat said that he was "sad but optimistic" and expressed the hope that the Israeli government would "drop all these difficulties they are putting on the road to peace." But Cairo's influential daily al Ahram has sharply criticized Israel's Ambassador-designate Eliahu Ben-Elissar, who is due to arrive in Cairo this week, for proclaiming that neither Egypt nor the U.S. can tell Israelis where they can and cannot live...
...Egypt. Last weekend, in accordance with the timetable agreed upon at Camp David, formal diplomatic relations between the two nations were established. Ambassadors will not be exchanged for another month, although both countries have already named them: Saad Mortada will represent Egypt in Tel Aviv, and Eliahu Ben Elissar will be Israel's man in Cairo. Telephone, telex and postal links were also opened, and direct air service between Tel Aviv and Cairo is set to begin soon...
...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...