The Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty was signed on March 26, 1979 in Washington by the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The former President of the United States of America Jimmy Carter signed both the peace treaty and the previous Camp-David Agreement as a witness.
The contract determined next to the mutual recognition of the respective countries the termination of the state of war that had ruled since 1948. Furthermore the peace treaty contained the determination that Israel returns the Sinai Peninsula including the local oil sources as well as all strategic points, breaks down Israeli settlements and removes the Jewish population of these settlements, for instance by means of the use of force and violence. Besides, the contract arranged a free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and acknowledged the Strait of Tiran as well as the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways. Including Egypt in the peace treaty, it was the very first time that an Arab state officially recognized Israel.
In the case that Israel relinquishes the Golan Heights to a hostile, Syria would have the possibility to jeopardize its warning system that was established against surprise attacks. Strictly speaking Israel has already installed radars on Mount Hermon, the highest point of the Golan Heights rising in the North up to 2,814 metres. Fact is that Israel would lose a remarkable amount of its strategic effectiveness, if it retired from the Golan Heights and relocated its facilities to the Galilee.
Of course there exists a possible comprise consisting in a partial Israeli withdrawal, strictly speaking along those lines that had been established in the course of the disengagement agreement with Syria in 1974. Another compromise would be an entire Israeli withdrawal. Consequently the Golan Heights would become a free and demilitarized region.