On this day in 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty to end 46 years of war. The treaty was signed by Isreal’s prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s prime minister, Abdel Salam Majali.
The ceremony which held in the Arava valley of Israel, north of Eilat and near the Jordanian border was attended by President Clinton.
The treaty settled land and water disputes and provided for broad cooperation in tourism and trade. It included a pledge that neither Jordan nor Israel would allow its territory to become a staging ground for military strikes by a third country.
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