The land bridge between Asia and Africa, some 23,000 square miles in size. It has the shape of a triangle and is bounded by the Gulf of Suez in the west, the Gulf of Aqaba in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. Its highest point is Jebel Musa (the Biblical Mount Sinai). The peninsula was occupied by Israel in the Sinai War (1956), and after its return to Egypt in 1957, it was captured again in the Six-Day War (1967). It was evacuated by Israel and returned to Egypt in accordance with the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979.
See also Sinai II Accords (1975).
Historical Dictionary of Israel. Bernard Reich David H. Goldberg. Edited by Jon Woronoff..