Everyone goes to Carmel Market: locals head here for the freshest produce at low prices, while tourists come for souvenirs and gifts. The air is filled with the aromas of fragrant spices and hot pastries. An unimaginable number of all kinds of goods: fruits and vegetables, household odds and ends, clothes and shoes - all of this can be bought at Carmel Market. Most importantly, here you will not simply buy goods, you will get true pleasure from the local flavor.
The history of Carmel Market is also highly colorful. Five years after the city was founded, Mayor Dizengoff realized that its development was moving more slowly than expected. He turned for help to the Zionist Arthur Ruppin, head of the Eretz-Israel Bureau, which was engaged in attracting Jews to Palestine.
Ruppin bought land from the Arabs, divided it into plots, and went off to call Jews back to their historical homeland. He started with Odessa, where many well-off Jewish families lived, then visited Kyiv and Moscow. Everywhere, people bought deeds from him for plots of land in Tel Aviv. But few of the buyers intended to move; these were more like donations than real land purchases.
Everything changed after the 1917 revolution in Russia. Hundreds of families rushed to Tel Aviv and took possession of their lawful lands. But almost all of these people were intellectuals and did not have the skills for physical labor, which was in demand at the time. The settlers found a way out: they asked Dizengoff for permission to open a "Fruit and Vegetable Exchange" and sell fruit right on the streets of their neighborhood. It was from these small family stalls that the famous market grew.
