Mr Sharon was born in Palestine in 1928, when it was under British administration Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, has been moved from a hospital to his home.
The 82-year-old has been in a coma since 2006, when he suffered a massive stroke.
Doctors say the hope is that he will eventually be able to remain at his house with a full medical team to care for him.
The medics said the process of moving him to his home - a farm in southern Israel - had been gradual.
The former prime minister was moved at dawn on Friday from the Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv to the family's ranch.
"Today, in 2010, the aspiration of any patient, our aspiration in the hospital, is to ensure that any chronic patient, when possible, is with his community, at home," Dr Shlomo Noy, director of rehabilitation at the hospital, told Israel Radio.
"Clearly what's behind this move home is the hope that his situation will get better. But the improvements that we talk about in such situations are not great improvements, not dramatic improvements," he added.
Mr Sharon is expected to be returned to hospital for regular checkups.
On this first, carefully rehearsed, journey from the hospital the former leader was accompanied by the medical team, and all the necessary respiratory machinery to keep him alive.
BBC Jerusalem correspondent Wyre Davies says that even though he is in a permanent coma and is likely to never recover, Ariel Sharon still casts a shadow over Israeli politics.
Mr Sharon was admired by many Israelis as a great military leader, but reviled by Palestinians.
He was elected prime minister in 2001, pledging to achieve "security and true peace".
He was a keen promoter of the expansion of the state and initiated the construction of the security barrier around the West Bank.
But despite fierce opposition in Israel, he ordered Jewish settlers to leave Gaza and four settlements in the West Bank.
As defence minister, Mr Sharon masterminded Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. During the invasion, Lebanese Christian militiamen allied to Israel massacred hundreds of Palestinians in two refugee camps under Israeli control.
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