Asher Levin House - Belkind House, Historic residence in Rishon LeZion, Israel.

The Belkind-Levin House is a three-storey eclectic building at 5 HaCarmel Street in Rishon LeZion, with a partial basement and a tiled roof. Its square mass has projections on each face, and the symmetrical main facade carries concrete casts around openings and balconies. Inside are 27 rooms, corridors and service rooms, with 12 patterns of decorated concrete floor tiles.

Construction began in 1922 for Eitan Belkind, who was building the Na'aman cinema at the same time. Facing debts of about 900 lirot to contractor Asher Levin plus a mortgage of some 1,300 lirot, he handed the unfinished house to Levin. Levin's son Elisha moved into the upper floor in 1927, and from 1935 his brother Gideon, an ear, nose and throat doctor, ran a clinic on the ground floor.

The house is named for Eitan Belkind, who began building it in 1922, and Aryeh Levin, who took it over for debts of about 900 pounds plus a 1,300-pound mortgage. From 1935 Gideon Levin, a doctor trained in Paris and Vienna, ran an ear, nose and throat clinic on the ground floor, while the upper floors and rear rooms were rented to several families.

The house stands at 5 HaCarmel Street in central Rishon LeZion, with its main facade facing the street and a raised ground-floor balcony above street level. An external staircase runs along the eastern facade, and the upper front balcony looks out over HaCarmel Street. The building is closed pending conservation, so the exterior is seen from the pavement.

The building displays crafted stone and window details that are rarely found on other houses from the same period. These specific patterns are particularly notable for those interested in construction history and local development.