Shimon Peres, the man who was Israeli PM twice and later prez

Shimon Peres twice served as

Israeli prime minister

and later ninth president. He died aged 93 in 2016.

The chowk between V B Gandhi Marg and Saibaba Marg currently has no name. It would have been the first junction in the city to be named after a foreign leader.

Knesset Eliyahoo Synagogue

is at V B Gandhi Marg. Established in 1884, it is Mumbai’s second oldest Sephardic synagogue. Earlier, a huge Baghdadi

Jewish community

lived in the area. tnn