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Actor Omar Sharif: I brought Sadat and Begin together
By Haaretz Service
Tags: israel news, Haaretz TV 

Celebrated silver-screen star Omar Sharif has claimed that he was responsible for bringing then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin together ahead of Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel.

In an interview this week with an Egyptian news Web site, the star of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia said Sadat called him and asked him to call Begin and ask him how a visit to Jerusalem would be received.

According to Sharif, he then called Begin who told him that Sadat would be greeted "like the Messiah."
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The meeting was successful and led to the Camp David Accords in 1978 and later the Israel-Egypt peace treaty in 1979.

It has not been confirmed if Sharif's story is true, or if the legendary film star is writing his own script.

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      1.   True Or Not We All Love Omar Sharif... 01:14  |  Yosemite 23/04/09
      2.   Yosemite-He plays a mean game of "Shesh-Besh" too 08:22  |  Barbara S. 23/04/09
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