BGU | MY PATH, Haim Doron, MD

This was at the time when it appeared that Israeli settlements in Sinai would be there forever. 95 This idea echoed in the words of Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan in the Rabin Government. Regarding the future of Sharm El Sheikh after Egypt spurned Israel’s peace overtures in the wake of the war, Dayan said, “Better Sharm El Sheikh without peace than peace without Sharm El Sheik.” Aloni’s pressures increased until I surrendered, even if I was not convinced that a clinic was justified. We established a first-rate clinic with offices for a family doctor, a pediatrician, and a dentist. There was also a pharmacy. 96 I invited Prime Minister Rabin to speak at the opening ceremony of the clinic.

I have no idea what became of this structure, but I’m sorry to say, today there is no genuine peace and no Sharm El Sheikh. 97

95 The peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1979 returned the Sinai to Egypt in 1982. 96 In addition to the diving resort that Israel had built there from scratch and its clientele, there was an adjacent Israeli settlement called Ofira, founded in 1969 97 Relations with Egypt, despite the return of Sinai have remained cool, and the Sinai itself has become a terrorist base.

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