Sarona Market

This guide to Sarona Market in Tel Aviv opens on a Friday evening in June 2016, when two young men in black suits sat down at the Max Brenner restaurant inside the food hall, ordered a dessert, and waited. It also traces the market's older history: the German Templer settlers who built these red-tiled cottages in 1871, the Nazi party branch their community later hosted, and the market's position directly across from Israel's military headquarters. Listen while you stand among the arched-window buildings that have carried all of that history into a lane now filled with restaurants.