1 · POSITION
The Carmel Market, the Shuk HaCarmel, is Tel Aviv’s principal market: one long street running south from the junction of King George, Allenby and Sheinkin to the Carmelit bus depot, with traders spilling into the side streets. It sells mostly food, and also flowers, clothing and household goods. It opened in 1920, eleven years after the city was founded, and is as old as almost anything in it. [1, 2]
2 · PRODUCE BELOW, EATING ALONGSIDE
The lower part of the street is given to fresh produce. In recent years boutique stalls and small eateries cooking from the market’s own produce have opened beside the traditional traders, with craft beer among them. The market has become a place to eat in, not only to shop from. [2]
3 · NAHALAT BINYAMIN
On Tuesdays and Fridays independent artists and makers sell crafts, art and jewellery along Nahalat Binyamin Street beside the market, so that two kinds of market share one walk. The pairing — food on one street, the city’s makers on the next — is what a visitor comes for on those two days. [1]
4 · HOURS
The market trades from Sunday to Friday and closes for the Sabbath. From Sunday to Thursday it opens at seven and begins to close at about six in summer and four in winter; on Friday it closes two hours before the Sabbath begins. [1, 2]
5 · ⚑ CANDOUR
⚑ The founding is given as 1920 by one source and only as the 1920s by another. The market’s modernisation was the subject of a 2013 newspaper report that could not be read behind its paywall, so the scale of that change is not recorded here. No stall count is given by any source read. [1–2]
Sources & Further Reading
Sources checked 22 October 2026.