•He was the President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on October 6th, 1981.
•He was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970.
•In 1973, Sadat led Egypt in a war against. Although Egypt was defeated, Sadat made a state visit to Israel, where he delivered a memorable speech before the Israel Knesset on November 20, 1977.
•His visit to Israel and the eventual Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty won him the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award posthumously, but was an act enormously unpopular with the Arab world and Islamists, and resulted in Egypt being expelled from the Arab Leagu
Egypt had become the first Arab country to recognize Israel as a sovereign state, which resulted the regaining of Sinai Peninsula made him an Egyptian hero.
•He changed Egypt’ s direction, departing from some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by reinstituting the multi-party system and launching the Infitah (policy of “opening the door” to private investment in Egypt).
•It was not until 1989 that the League re-admitted Egypt as a member, and returned its headquarters to Cairo.