Mustafa Khalil

Mustafa Khalil accompanied Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on his historic first visit to Jerusalem, in November 1977 to meet with the Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin. Mustafa Khalil died on June 7, 2008, at the age of 88 at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. According to MENA, Egypt's state-run news agency, Khalil was being treated at the hospital of an unspecified illness at the time. He was survived by his wife, Nehal, his son Egyptian businessman and former parliamentarian Hisham Mustafa Khalil and daughter Zeinab Khalil. His state funeral on June 9, 2008, was a big affair attended by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dignitaries from Egypt and abroad. ==References==