Mahane Yehuda Market, Market hall in Jerusalem, Israel

Mahane Yehuda Market is a partly covered market hall in the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel, bounded by Jaffa Road to the north and Agrippas Street to the south. Its two main lanes, Eitz Chaim Street (covered) and Mahane Yehuda Street (open-air), are lined with stalls selling fresh produce, meat, fish, bread, cheese, nuts, spices, household goods, and flowers. The covered section has a pitched roof of glass or translucent panels on tan metal beams, with large dark ceiling fans hanging from the ridge and bare bulbs on wires overhead.

Arab farmers began setting up temporary stalls along Jaffa Road in the late 19th century to supply the new Jewish neighborhoods developing west of the Old City. The market grew over the decades into a permanent covered trading center with fixed structures.

The market's name comes from the adjacent Mahane Yehuda neighbourhood, founded in 1887 and named after Yehuda Navon, brother of partner Joseph Navon; earlier it was called Shuk Valero after the Sephardi family who owned the lot. Cross streets carry fruit and nut names — Afarsek (peach), Egoz (walnut), Shaked (almond), Shezif (plum), Tapuach (apple), Tut (strawberry) — and Agas Street was renamed Yaakov Eliyahu Banai Street after a Persian-Jewish pioneer of the permanent shops, whose grandson Ehud Banai wrote a song about the market. Thursday and Friday draw Shabbat shoppers until a bugle sounds on Friday afternoon.

Most activity happens during daylight hours when shoppers walk through the narrow lanes between stalls and inspect goods. In the evening, some areas shift character as restaurants and bars open and a different crowd arrives.

The market's side lanes carry names from its produce past: Afarsek (Peach), Egoz (Walnut), Shaked (Almond), Shezif (Plum) and Tut (Strawberry) streets. Agas (Pear) Street was renamed Yaakov Eliyahu Banai Street after a Persian-Jewish pioneer of the permanent shops; his grandson, singer Ehud Banai, grew up at the address and wrote a song about the market.