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The National Park (HaPark HaLe'umi) is a large urban park
Urban park

An urban park, also known as a municipal park or a public park or open space , is a park in cities and other Municipal corporation to offer recreation and green space to residents of and visitors to the municipality....
 in Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan

Ramat Gan is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, which borders Tel Aviv to its west. It houses Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium, Bar-Ilan University, an advanced medical center , and The National Park ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It is not actually a national park
List of national parks and nature reserves of Israel

This is a list of national parks and nature reserves of Israel. All are managed by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority....
. The park covers an area of 1.9 kmē. As such, it is the second largest urban park in Israel, after the Yarkon Park
Yarkon Park

The Yarkon Park is a large urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel, visited by thousands weekly.Lying between Israel Rokach to its north, and the neighborhood of Bavli, Tel Aviv to its south, the park includes various sports facilities, botanical garden, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and a number of Water reservoir....
.

The park was named after Avraham Krinitzi, the first mayor of Ramat Gan. It includes an artificial lake and other attractions. The park attracts 700-800 thousand visitors annually. The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan
Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan

The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan is a zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel. It opened to the general public in 1974 as an African animal park. In 1981, a modern zoo was established in the middle of the park, populated with animals brought from the former Tel Aviv Zoo, which was closed....
 is adjacent to the park.

In the future, The National Park is set to be incorporated into the planned Ariel Sharon Park.

r the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
, new lands were handed over to the jurisdiction of Ramat Gan, then under mayor Avraham Krinitzi.






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The National Park (HaPark HaLe'umi) is a large urban park
Urban park

An urban park, also known as a municipal park or a public park or open space , is a park in cities and other Municipal corporation to offer recreation and green space to residents of and visitors to the municipality....
 in Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan

Ramat Gan is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, which borders Tel Aviv to its west. It houses Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium, Bar-Ilan University, an advanced medical center , and The National Park ....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It is not actually a national park
List of national parks and nature reserves of Israel

This is a list of national parks and nature reserves of Israel. All are managed by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority....
. The park covers an area of 1.9 kmē. As such, it is the second largest urban park in Israel, after the Yarkon Park
Yarkon Park

The Yarkon Park is a large urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel, visited by thousands weekly.Lying between Israel Rokach to its north, and the neighborhood of Bavli, Tel Aviv to its south, the park includes various sports facilities, botanical garden, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and a number of Water reservoir....
.

The park was named after Avraham Krinitzi, the first mayor of Ramat Gan. It includes an artificial lake and other attractions. The park attracts 700-800 thousand visitors annually. The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan
Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan

The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan is a zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel. It opened to the general public in 1974 as an African animal park. In 1981, a modern zoo was established in the middle of the park, populated with animals brought from the former Tel Aviv Zoo, which was closed....
 is adjacent to the park.

In the future, The National Park is set to be incorporated into the planned Ariel Sharon Park.

History

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
, new lands were handed over to the jurisdiction of Ramat Gan, then under mayor Avraham Krinitzi. The mayor initiated the park's planting in 1951. It finally opened to the public in 1953. In 1959, an artificial lake was created in the park, which was initially small but slowly grew to its current size between 1959 and the 1970s.