The Nachlat Binyamin market is the largest pedestrian market in Israel. I documented my trip to share the economic creativity that exists in this market in Tel Aviv.

1. Nachlat Binyamin Arts and Crafts Market
Tel Aviv, Israel

2. Introduction
• Established in 1988
• 200+ artists
• 10,000 visitors each week
• Opening hours: Tuesdays 10:00 - 17:00 and Fridays
10:00 - 16:30
• The artists must be accepted by a special committee.
• Products made of wood, glass, fabric, plastic, paper,
rocks, newspapers, wires, metal, - anything
Source: http://www.nachlat-binyamin.com 2012

3. Wine bottle holders with candles
(hand carved out of wood)

4. Wire-mesh sculptures
(cost: 300 – 2000 NIS)

5. Glowing door bells

6. Paper trees

7. Ceramics

8. Kaleidoscopes

9. Kaleidoscopes (2)

10. Clocks

11. Office organizers, etc.
(made out of newspapers)

12. Soap

13. Melted-down bottles
(now spoon rests)

14. Animal Sculptures

15. Figurines

16. Shoebox towns

17. Wire art

18. Mezuzahs

19. Final notes
• Major tourist attraction
• Formerly a run-down province of the textile and
haberdashery trade, rejuvenated as a busy
pedestrian-friendly precinct full of fashionable cafés
and arty shop (Lonely Planet, 2011)
• In terms of an economic strategy, the visitors are
drawn in by the arts and crafts, but then can stay to
frequent the many restaurants

20. Final notes
• Artists are friendly, and quite plesant
• Prices are diverse as there is a wide range of low-
priced (soap) to higher priced items (custom leather
bags)
• Security-bag check by the police is a little strange,
but didn’t seem to distract too much from the
experience

21. CREDITS
Photographed and researched by:
Andrew Bacchus
www.streetecology.com
www.facebook.com/streetecology
Research made possible by a grant from The Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Foundation at The University of Waterloo
in Waterloo, Canada.