There is a hairy hard shell (looking like a small kiwi), which naturally breaks, and under it there is brain-shaped red sweet flesh, half-covering the smooth black seed.
Picture taken in the Mediterranean coast of Israel in August
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Picture taken in the Mediterranean coast of Israel in August
Might it be Alectryon tomentosus?
To me, the fruit looks the same and also the leaves have the same look.
It is an Australian tree whose common name is "wooly rambutan" and is used as a street tree as you observed. I did not find instances of this tree in Israel, though.
Kind of Morus, I have seen this in Morocco and it is delicious : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morus_(plant)