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Begin was in a notably euphoric mood when he reported to a somewhat skeptical Knesset on his latest travels. With a touch of awe in his voice, the Premier declared that "they played the Hatikva [the Israeli national anthem] in Cairo." Shouted right-wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was brilliant," says Tali Bashan, 21, a political science student at Hebrew University, "but it was no argument for our making large concessions." Adds Geula Cohen, a Knesset member and an old comrade of the Premier's in the Irgun movement: "Begin didn't think. He gave away the sovereignty of the Sinai like a present, without getting anything in return...