[1] Levinsky Street is named after Elhanan Leib Lewinsky, a member of the Bilu Zionist movement in the Russian Empire, who travelled to Palestine in the early 1880s.[2] In 1896, he was appointed manager of the southern and western Russian branches of the Carmel company, marketing wine produced in Palestine.[4][5] In July 2002, two Palestinian suicide bombers set off two explosions in rapid succession along a shopping strip in Neve Shaanan.[6] In January 2003, 23 people—15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals—were killed, and 120 wounded when two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up on the pedestrian mall adjacent to the old central bus station.[7] In April 2006, during the Passover holiday, a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at the Rosh Ha'ir shwarma restaurant in Neve Sha'anan, killing 11 people and wounding 50.
Levinsky garden library
Street intersection of Levinsky St. and David Tzemach St. in Neve Sa'anan neighborhood, near the main entrance of
Tel Aviv Central Bus Station
, and under one of the platforms leading to the upper floors of the bus station