Now, I am certainly no Steven Spielberg, but with all due respect to him, this is my first little movie so with a little bit of practice I may just find out I have an eye for it!

The Shuk Carmel Market in Tel Aviv is by far my favorite place in all of Israel!  Now I am an open air market fanatic so this doesn’t surprise me, my first open air market was in Managua, Nicaragua at age 13 and I have been in love ever since!  The energy of open air markets is so invigorating and gets my blood pumping in a way most other places don’t.  I especially like the fact that everyone is speaking and yelling in Hebrew so there is a sense of panic in me that I can’t understand them and don’t know what they are saying.  And never mind shopping there and the difficulty or purchasing in a language you can’t even read!  I can speak a little and understand the numbers pretty well but I have no idea what the price says on the price tag so there is an element of trust one must go by and I find myself getting more and more comfortable the more often I go.

The market sells, fresh fruits, vegetables, baked goods, spices, meats, fish, flowers, plants, sweets and household goods and clothes.  Its open every day but Saturday and has the same energy each and every day with Friday being absolutely insanely crowed, but I go every Friday I am there as against the energy is amazing.

So I am going to try to give you a taste (visual and sound taste!) of the market with my video made on a hot day in Tel Aviv!  Take it all in look at all the displays, here the yelling and selling and witness the people living life in this amazing open air daily market!  I wish we had one every day in NYC!