NEWSRAEL: Israelis will always remember Jimmy Carter with a large amount of ambivalence in which he was a staunch leader of anti-Israel critics and caved into the Iranian revolution which has plagued the Middle East for decades.
(Dec. 29, 2024 / JNS) Former President Jimmy Carter died “peacefully” at his home in Plains, Ga., surrounded by family on Sunday at the age of 100, the Carter Center announced.
He leaves behind a legacy as a lifelong humanitarian, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and a one-term presidency that was mired in domestic challenges and a mixed foreign policy.
Carter’s term in office from 1977 to 1981 was defined by what he described in a 1979 speech as a “crisis of confidence” and what others termed “malaise”: high unemployment, double-digit inflation and slow economic growth.