September 1940. Karavan's advocacy of Tel Aviv's modern international style buildings encouraged their restoration and the inscription of The White City as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Along with an exhibition about the city's architecture at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in the mid-1980s, Karavan convinced mayor Shlomo Lahat to form a jury of international architecture and art critics to review these buildings. The value they placed on the city's town planning and design led to conservation in the 1990s and acceptance by UNESCO in 2003. In February 2016 Karavan was commissioned by Sigmund Rolat, the founder of the organization Remembrance and Future Foundation, to design the controversial monument From Those You Saved in Warsaw to commemorate Polish righteous gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Prior to commissioning Karavan, Rolat had denounced the design by Austrian architect Gabu Heindl and artist Eduard Freudmann which had won the preceding controversial monument competition. Karavan initially declined the commission after he had read an article written by Freudmann and Heindl, in which they criticized the foundation and their course of action. In April 2016 Karavan announced that he accepted the commission to build the monument, thereby sparking another furor. To this day, the monument for Polish righteous gentiles has not been built. Awards In 1977, Karavan was awarded the Israel Prize, for sculpture. In 1998, he was one of five recipients of the Japanese annual Praemium Imperiale art prize. In 2009 he was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. List of projects Monument to the Negev Brigade (1963–68, Negev, Beersheva) Memorial to the Holocaust, 1972, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Kikar Levana (Hebrew for The White Plaza; 1977–88, Tel Aviv, Israel) Tower of Tears (memorial installation at Yad La-Shiryon, Latrun, Israel) Axis of the Metropolis () (1980–, Cergy, France) Line 1-2-3+4+5,Fattoria di Celle- Collezione Gori, 1982 Italy Tzaphon (iron sculpture in the form of a disc for the entrance square of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1990) The Way of Human Rights (1989–93, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany) Passage, a Homage to Walter Benjamin (1990–94, Portbou, Catalonia, Spain) Way to the Hidden Garden (1992–99, Sapporo Art Forest open-air gallery, Japan) Ma'ayan (1993–95, Miyazaki Prefecture Art Museum, Japan) Way of Peace (1996–2000, Negev Desert near Nitzana, Israel) Murou Art Forest (1998–2006, Nara Prefecture, Japan) Garden of Remembrance (1999, Duisburg Inner Harbour, Germany) The