Carmel Market

This guide to Carmel Market in Tel Aviv starts at eleven fifteen on the morning of November 1, 2004, when a bomb went off among the stalls at the market's loudest hour, and traces the market's older violence too, back to snipers firing on shoppers from the nearby Hassan Bek mosque during the fighting of 1948. It then goes back further, to a scrappy vineyard plot called HaKerem where Russian immigrants and the Zionist official Arthur Rupin first laid out stalls, and to Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who gave the street its name. Stand at the north end, by the old Yemenite Quarter, and look south down the narrow corridor of stalls.