Ariel Sharon Park

Ariel Sharon Park is an environmental park installed on the former Hiriy waste dump located southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel. After collecting 25 million lots of waste, the facility become shut down in August 1998. It is visible on approach into Ben Gurion International Airport as a flat-crowned hill. Three recycling facilities had been mounted on the foot of the mountain: a waste separation middle, a green waste facility that produces mulch and a constructing materials recycling plant. The waste sell off and its surrounding place had been renovated into a large park that is nevertheless underneath construction.

The landfill is positioned on the lands of the Palestinian village of al-Khayriyya, from which the call Hiriya is derived. The village, previously known as Ibn Ibraq, maintaining the name of the historical biblical website Beneberak, become renamed al-Khayriyya in 1924. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, its citizens fled the village earlier than advancing Haganah forces. According to Rachelle Gershovitz of the Israel Venture Capital Journal, the British government exact the region as Crown Land and plans were drawn up to apply it as a draining simple to solve the once a year flooding hassle during the British Mandate.

Earmarked as a dump in 1952, the site grew to become extra than half a mile lengthy and over 87 yards 80 meters above sea degree. Plans have been finally drawn up to remediate the web site and use the mountain and surrounding land as the centerpiece of Ariel Sharon Park. A 2,000-acre place changed into demarcated for the park at some stage in the term of Ariel Sharon, who become an avid supporter of the venture. The planner is panorama architect and urban planner Peter Latz.