Hassan Tuhami
Dr. Hassan Tuhami (1924–2009) was an Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister during Anwar Sadat's presidency.
In 1977, Tuhami met with Yitzhak Hofi, chief of Israel's Mossad, in Morocco.[1][2] This was followed, on September 16, by a meeting between Tuhami and Israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan to discuss if Israel was sincere in pursuing peace talks with Egypt. This first Tuhami–Dayan meeting, facilitated by King Hassan II of Morocco, preceded Anwar Sadat's November 1977 trip to Jerusalem. It was in these meetings where the Egyptians first learned of Israel's willingness to withdraw "from Sinai in return for full, contractual, bilateral peace between the two states."[3][4] Dayan, however, indicated in his book Breakthrough that he did not make such a promise and "was pleased that Sadat...would be coming to Jerusalem unaccompanied by any preconditions."
Tuhami and Dayan met again on December 2, 1977, in Morocco.[5]
Tuhami's meetings with Dayan are part of the process that led to the Camp David Accords (1978) and Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty (1979).[6]
See also
- Government ministers of Egypt
- History of the Sinai Peninsula
- War of Attrition
- Camp David Accords
- Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty
- List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
References
- ↑ "The Moroccan connection". The Jerusalem Post. 22 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Thomas L. Friedman (27 October 2009). "Don't Build Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Meital, Yoram. Egypt's Struggle for Peace: Continuity and Change, 1967–1977, page 162.
- ↑ "The Secret Mideast Talks". The Daily Beast. The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC. 2 September 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ↑ Bernard Reich, Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary, page 148.
- ↑ Aluf Benn (May 7, 2009). "In the corrals". Haaretz. Retrieved 27 January 2014.