Open-Air Market: Shuk Mahaneh Yehudah, Jerusalem

I lived in Jerusalem for 14 years once, but I’m almost a stranger there now. New roads, changes in bus routes, old shops closed down, new shops open, and above all, the maddening construction of the light rail, a great useless trench in the middle of Yaffo Road. Buses and cars must travel squeezed to [...]

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Open-Air Market: The Flea Market at Yaffo

I spent this afternoon winding in and out of the Flea Market at Yaffo. Open-air markets always interest me, but this mad jumble of old junk shops, genuine antiques, garish clothes, eateries big and eateries small and sidewalk displays of every imaginable object just entrances me.
I get a particular kick out of the history attached [...]

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Open-Air Market in Petach Tikvah

There are famous open-air markets in Israel. The three best-known are Machaneh Yehudah, in downtown Jerusalem, the Arab shuk in Jerusalem’s Old City, and the Carmel Market of Tel Aviv.  Other large towns also have permanent shuks of their own. Smaller towns are served by traveling markets that arrive once a week and set up [...]

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