industrial estates to be located close to the new towns. Sharon's plan led to the creation of development towns for example: Beit She'an, Kiryat Gat, and Upper Nazareth. Agricultural regions were planned expanding into the southern Negev desert. A national water plan was set up that would carry water from the surplus areas in the north to the dry, water-poor areas in the south. And a network of National Parks was devised, spreading all over the country, exploiting the existing landscape features, nature reserves and historical sites. At the end of 1953, Sharon was invited by the United Nations to serve as a planning expert in a Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement, held in New Delhi, and afterwards to Burma and Japan. Private practice Sharon returned to his private practice in 1954, and set up a partnership with the architect Benjamin Idelson. From 1965 onwards he worked together with his son, Eldar Sharon, until his death in 1984. 1954–1964: Arieh Sharon, Benjamin Idelson, Architects, Tel Aviv Selected buildings: 1950/56 New Beilinson General Hospital, Petah Tikva, for 500 beds 1952/54 Ministry of Defense, Buildings 21 and 22, Hakyria, Tel Aviv 1954/58 Ichilov Municipal Hospital, Tel Aviv, for 300 beds 1954/58 Forum of the Technion Haifa, incl. Secretariat, Library and Churchill Auditorium (competition, 1st prize) 1954/55 Terraced Housing, Nazareth, for new immigrants 1955/62 Regional Hospital, Beersheba (Israel Prize for Architecture) 1958/60 Wingate Institute for Physical Culture 1958 Israel Pavilion at World Expo Brussels with architect Aryeh Elhanani 1959/61 Yad Vashem Memorial, The Hall of Remembrance, Jerusalem with architect Aryeh Elhanani 1959/60 Workers’ Bank headquarters, Tel Aviv 1959/61 Yakin Pektin Factory, Petah Tikva 1961 First Masterplan for the University of Ife, Nigeria 1961/65 Jewish Agency headquarters, Tel Aviv (competition, 1st prize) 1963/65 Sick Fund headquarters, Labor Federation, Tel Aviv 1963/65 Ife University Nigeria, Humanities with AMY Ltd. 1964 Ife University Nigeria, Halls of Residence with AMY Ltd 1965–1984: Arieh Sharon, Eldar Sharon, Architects, Tel Aviv Selected buildings: 1965/71 Convalescent Home 'Kinarot', Tiberias 1965/72 Rambam Hospital, Haifa, for 600 beds 1965-68 Agricultural Cooperatives headquarters, Tel Aviv 1966/76 Wolfson General Hospital, Holon, Tel Aviv, competition, 1st prize 1966 Tel Aviv Medical Center, addition to Ichilov Hospital 1966/68 Memorial Museum, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai 1966/70 Geha Mental Hospital, Petah Tikva, for 170 beds 1967 Israel Pavilion Expo 67 Montreal (built by Ze'ev Vered) 1967/70 Ife University, Nigeria, Library with AMY Ltd. 1967/69 Housing estates in Beersheba