The market sits in Tel Aviv’s first purpose-built commercial neighbourhood, simply called “Commercial Centre”. The name pretty much says it all. The streets were laid out in a grid, each with its own trade, and Levinsky Street became the street for food. We’ll get to know the Jewish immigrant communities who established the market, and the people who arrived later and added something of their own.

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I’m also interested in what’s happening here now. People still come to do their shopping, but increasingly they come to eat, drink and spend an afternoon. What does that change? You can see it in the shops, the food and the way people use the streets. We’ll talk about that too. And somewhere between bites, we’ll find out who Levinsky was and what future he imagined here.