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Carmel Market

A woman stops to take a picture of Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, a day after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, June 25, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 25, 2025, 7:58 pm
Tel Aviv remains subdued after ceasefire, as Israelis hope for better days
From nearly empty markets to missile-scarred streets, Israel’s coastal hub hopes to find normalcy and unity a day after the fragile cessation of fighting with Iran takes effect
By Stav Levaton
From left to right: Carmel restaurant partners Liron Hazan, Ronnie Benarie, Asaf Moaz, Yoav Schverd, in their Los Angeles, California eatery, May 2024. (Kelly Hartog)
July 5, 2024, 8:31 pm
LA’s swanky new Carmel eatery serves upscale Tel Aviv market fare, no added politics
Four friends focus on their love of the White City’s Carmel Market by bringing Angelenos gourmet spins on local classics despite anti-Israel spike after Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities
By Kelly Hartog
A novel written by Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, titled "A Mask, the Color of the Sky," written while serving three life sentences in an Israeli jail for assisting in a deadly 2004 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)
April 29, 2024, 4:54 am
Palestinian jailed for assisting in deadly 2004 suicide bombing wins top book prize
Convicted of helping terrorist in Tel Aviv market attack that killed 3 in Second Intifada, Basim Khandaqji gets 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for novel written in custody
By AFP and ToI Staff
Brothers Michael and Daniel Ronen opened their German Colony coffee spot Birma in 2021, creating a charming local coffee corner (Courtesy Birma)
August 20, 2023, 5:39 am
Israeli baristas hunt down the best beans for their customers
A curated selection of specialty coffeehouses in Jaffa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where the java is always fresh and the company warm
By Jessica Steinberg
People wearing face masks shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on December 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 27, 2020, 6:48 am
Israel starts 3rd lockdown Sunday, as it ramps up vaccine distribution
6,000 cops being deployed to enforce closure, with focus on dispersing gatherings and New Year’s Eve parties, and cracking down on quarantine violations
By ToI Staff
Shoppers at the Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan, November 29, 2020. (Flash90)
December 26, 2020, 11:45 pm
Israelis pack malls, parks ahead of 2-week lockdown; hundreds party in Tel Aviv
With shops and nature reserves set to close again on Sunday, people use last chance to shop, visit; police hand out fines to revelers ignoring health rules
By ToI Staff
People wearing face masks shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on December 25, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 25, 2020, 6:09 pm
Israelis rush malls, markets in final days before third lockdown begins
Crowds highlight challenge of instituting a national closure, with people gathering in large numbers before restrictions come into effect
By ToI Staff
Local shop owners open their stands at the Carmel Market in protest against the ongoing closure of the market, Tel Aviv, November 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 18, 2020, 11:06 am
As virus cases rise, market stall owners rage they aren’t allowed to open
Some open illegally in protest, saying they need to feed their families; 815 new virus cases reported as testing levels increase
By ToI Staff
Israeli police officers close shops following the government decision, at the Carmel market in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 22, 2020, 2:36 pm
Police shut popular open air markets, but may allow up to 20 people at weddings
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv markets shuttered as new rules sow confusion; internal law enforcement directives also said to state that action won’t be taken against individuals
By ToI Staff
The Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2020. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 21, 2020, 5:05 am
Israel’s 2 largest outdoor markets set to close, to stem spread of coronavirus
Carmel Market in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda reportedly to shutter in coming days; representative of store owners protests ‘financial ruin’
By ToI Staff
Cookbook author Adeena Sussman (center) with a copy of 'Sababa' and the Amrani brothers in the Carmel Market (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
October 7, 2019, 9:44 am
Cookbook author gives taste of her adopted home with a little help from the shuk
The Tel Aviv-based food writer Adeena Sussman earned her recipe-testing chops while living in New York, but the Carmel Market offers her ingredients and inspiration
By Jessica Steinberg
Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon (R) embracing a supporter during a visit to Tel Aviv's Hatikva Market, March 28, 2019. (Kulanu)
March 29, 2019, 5:54 am
At working class market, Kahlon clings to hopes of being a kingmaker again
A trip to Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood highlights the underdog Kulanu leader’s balancing act as he tries to hang on to cast-off Likud voters and remain in the Knesset
By Raoul Wootliff
Nurit Goren (left) with UK chef Jamie Oliver, in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 (Courtesy Nurit Goren)
January 29, 2019, 9:08 pm
Chef Jamie Oliver spotted chowing down in Tel Aviv market
British celebrity cook is reportedly in Israel to film clips for a show
By Jessica Steinberg
An apartment where a woman died in a blaze in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2018. (Tel Aviv Fire Department)
October 22, 2018, 9:14 am
Woman dies in Tel Aviv apartment fire
Firefighting efforts hampered by narrow approach to building near Carmel Market; man detained for questioning
By Stuart Winer
A man waving a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, December 7, 2017. (Ginopress B.V./AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
July 11, 2018, 10:48 pm
Kosher restaurant attacker in Amsterdam convicted, avoids more jail time
Unrepentant Syrian asylum seeker Saleh Ali, who smashed window of HaCarmel restaurant, receives 4-month suspended sentence, must pay $1,000 in damages
By JTA
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