Eating "Out", Eating "In"

For eating "out", our first night in Tel Aviv after finishing our work responsibilities at our medical Breast Imaging Conference, we returned to "LaLa Land" on Resto beach in Tel Aviv which Louise and I serendipitously happened upon our last visit to Israel. It has delicious vegetarian fare served on the beach, with your feet in the sand ,watching the sunset over the Mediterranean. Heavenly indeed.

The next evening we purchased all the ingredients for our eating "In" dinner at the HaCarmel Shuk and constructed an equally delicious meal, crafted with our knife purchase for 3 shekels in the marketplace, and eaten on pages of the Israeli post.

افا Joppa Jaffa Yafo A Rose By Any Other Name….

My horoscope sign

Josh is an Aquarian

افا Joppa Jaffa Yafo A Rose By Any Other Name….

The biblical town of Joppa is today known as Jaffa. This was the main port of the coast before the Israelis constructed the ports of Haifa and Ashdod. The modern city of Tel Aviv was founded on the outskirts of Jaffa in 1909 and today it encompasses the ancient city.

Jaffa is one of the oldest functioning harbors in the world. Today it harbors only small fishing boats. This was the port to which Jonah came when fleeing from the Lord to Tarshish (Jonah 1:3).

Jaffa is located about 30 miles (48 km) south of Caesarea. The modern population of Jaffa is about 60,000. Today Jaffa has a Jewish majority (mostly from other Mid-Eastern and North African countries) with a sizeable Arab Christian and Muslim population.
The Jaffa Flea Market, or, in Hebrew Shuk Hapishpishim is one of the highlights of the area with vendors selling products of any variety imaginable lining the sidewalks. Weaving your way through an array of treasure, junk, and daily basics, you’ll see everything from Judaica, Persian
tiles, jewelry, old jeans, and Indian mildewed clothes. Its an incredible cultural experience, where bargaining and haggling rule the day… fun in itself.

Nahalat Binyamin Arts & Crafts Market, Tel Aviv

A festival of arts, crafts, pottery, and street performances, Nachalat Binyamin offers a pleasant stroll and some pretty bits and pieces.

Every Tuesday and Friday, vendors display their merchandise on little tables along the paved part of Nachalat Binyamin St., parallel to the Carmel Market visited earlier in the day. You can find jewelry, painted ceramics, special toys, lampshades, Judaica and many more objects of different sort; there is quite a selection. Besides the shopping, performance artists, fortune tellers and clowns drop by at the fair to display their own sort of merchandise.

The fair is a regular Tower of Babel, where tourists are bound to find artists that speak, Spanish, Italian, Russian, English, Dutch as well as many other languages.

The Carmel Market (Hebrew: שוק הכרמל‎, Shuk HaKarmel)

So many olives,so little time

Giant loofas

The Carmel Market (Hebrew: שוק הכרמל‎, Shuk HaKarmel) is the largest bazaar market in Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv's Shuk Ha'carmel (open air market in south of the city) is the main open air market. It is a hive of stalls and shops packed into a small area. Travelers compare it to the big shuks (Arabic for market) found in Marrakesh in Morocco and Camden Market in London. Ha'carmel is where Tel Avivians shop for fresh produce and dry goods. We 
purchase items for our in-room dinner 
which I will post later. This is truly a feast for the senses and tastebuds of all foodies! Enjoy!