Recognition
In 2005, he was voted the 8th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
To commemorate him, Ariel Sharon Park, by far the most ambitious and expensive park project in Israel's history, is currently being developed outside Tel Aviv. Overseen by the state, the development of Ariel Sharon Park, in which $250 million will be invested before opening, when finished will be three times the size of New York's Central Park, and will introduce many new ecological technologies. A 50,000-seat Ariel Sharon amphitheatre is currently being proposed, to become the national concert venue.
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Famous quotes containing the word recognition:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.””
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)
“The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.”
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“That the world can be improved and yet must be celebrated as it is are contradictions. The beginning of maturity may be the recognition that both are true.”
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