Is it older than Israel?

On 6 July 1938 two Irgun bombs went off in the Arab market of Haifa, killing 21 people and injuring more than 50. On 25 July a second bomb in the same market, hidden in a barrel of pickled cucumbers, killed 39. They were the deadliest attacks of the Irgun's 1938 campaign, which also hit the melon market in Jerusalem on 15 July and the vegetable market in Jaffa on 26 August.

The bombs were the Irgun's answer to the Arab revolt against British rule and Jewish immigration. The Jewish Agency condemned them.