Word: refidim
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...retreating. We are leaving in the hope of peace." So read a large orange sign at Israel's Sinai military base of Refidim. Twelve years after its forces had occupied the Sinai and ten months after the signing of the Camp David agreement, Israel removed the last of its troops and weaponry from the western two-thirds of the desert peninsula. For the next two years, until the final third of Sinai is returned to Egyptian control, the Israelis will be stationed east of the Ras Muhammad-El Arish interim line. No longer will Israeli forces command the strategic...
...brief withdrawal ceremony at Refidim marked the beginning of a new but uncertain phase in the changing relationship between Israel and 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...
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