Lev HaMifratz Mall
Shopping mall in Haifa, Israel
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Lev HaMifratz Mall (Hebrew: קניון לב המפרץ, Kanyon Lev HaMifratz, lit. Heart of the Bay Mall), officially branded Cinemall, is a shopping mall located in Haifa, Israel.[1]
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| Location | Haifa, Israel |
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| Address | 55 HaHistadrut Ave, Lev Hamifratz Junction |
| Opened | 1991 |
| Stores | 83 |
| Floors | 3 |
| Website | www |
Lev HaMifratz has three floors of stores, a food court, an underground parking garage, and an above ground parking garage. In the past, it included an amusement park, a miniature golf course and an ice skating rink.[citation needed]
The area around Lev HaMifratz is also a transportation hub. Behind it is a train station, with trains to Nahariya and Tel Aviv. The entrance to the station is from the above ground parking garage.[citation needed] It is also adjacent to the Haifa Bay Central Bus Station, which is the main junction between the Krayot and the city of Haifa.[citation needed]
During construction, the mall was hit by an Iraqi Scud missile in the course of the 1991 Gulf War.[2][3]
Attempted bombing
On March 21, 2009, the mall was the target of a failed terrorist bombing attack, which was thwarted when police sappers disarmed a bomb weighing at least a few dozen kilograms in a vehicle outside the mall on that Saturday night. Israeli police suspect that Hezbollah or another Iran-backed terrorist organization was attempting to perpetrate the bombing.[4]
