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