ABSTRACT
Attempts at restarting negotiations began with the ceasefire on 22 October and UN resolution 338 [Doc. 15, p. 147]. On 11 November 1973 the first agreement between Israel and Egypt was reached at kilometre 101 on the Cairo-Suez road. It provided for relief for the Egyptian Third Army trapped behind Israeli lines, the replacement of Israeli checkpoints by UN checkpoints and the exchange of prisoners (Fraser, 1995). Equally, or even more important, it marked a change in Egyptian-Israeli relations exemplified by Egyptian Chief of Staff General Abdel Ghani Gamasy, who said to Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Israel Tal:
Look, this is the first time that a war has ended between us in equality. We can say we won and can say it’s a tie. From this position we can negotiate. This time we want to end the conflict.
