Mount Hiriya Rehabilitation

From a mountain of waste to a green and flourishing recycling park!

The Hiriya site received waste and worked as a landfill from 1952 to 1999. Over time, the size of the mountain reached 450,000m², a height of 60m, and a volume of 16 million cubic meters of waste. By 1998, Hiriya was receiving 3,000 tons of household waste per day, and in 1999, as part of a process being undertaken by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the decision was made to stop dumping waste on the mountain and turn Hiriya into a transfer station.

In 2001, the Dan Municipal Sanitation Association began the process of rehabilitating the mountain, with the intention of turning it into a green and flourishing park that would lead environmental change worldwide. In an international architectural competition to choose landscape architects for the rehabilitation of the mountain, Prof. Peter Latz was selected from 14 applicants from Israel and abroad – an architect with huge experience of projects of this scale around the world.

The rehabilitation of Mount Hiriya is only the first step of the construction of Ariel Sharon Park, the largest "green lung" of the Dan Metropolitan Area, which you will be able admire from various observation posts on the mountain.