This was the name given for the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. The presidential retreat (Camp David named after President Eisenhower's grandson) in Maryland where the agreement was worked on. It was signed March. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C., by Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt. President Jimmy Carter was a witness. Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt, a transfer that was completed in 1982. Both sides agreed to negotiate Palestinian autonomy measures in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.