The old mammoth Tel Aviv garbage dump that became a small mountain of trash dominating the outskirts of Tel Aviv has been turned into a park and will be named in Sunday after former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The move is unusually because parks, streets and buildings are almost never named after anyone still alive.

Sharon has been in a coma for almost two years after suffering a major stroke several months following his government's expulsion of several thousands Jews and turned over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) their communities that were in the Gaza and northern Samaria regions.
 
Sharon's son Omri, who has been convicted for illegal practices during his father's election campaign, said that his father felt it was "very important that they would not build" on the 2,000 site. "It was very close to this heart," he added.