 The Greek Jews were followed by an influx of Iranian Jews and immigrants from other countries where herbal remedies and spicy foods are common.Levinsky Street is named after Elchanan Leib Lewinsky, a member of the Bilu Zionist movement in Lithuania, who immigrated to Palestine in the early 1880s,In 1896, he was appointed manager of the southern and western Russian branches of the Carmel company, marketing wine produced in Palestine.The neighborhood was the site of a number of terrorist attacks.