Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak is a town located at the significant Mediterranean coastal undeniable in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Ultra Orthodox Judaism, Bnei Brak covers a place of 709 hectares, and had a populace of 193,774 in 2017. It is one of the poorest and most densely populated towns in Israel, and 5th maximum densely populated town inside the world. Bnei Brak takes its name from the historical Biblical city of Beneberak, cited in the Tanakh in a protracted listing of cities of historic Judea.

The call is likewise noted by using some as continuing the name of the Palestinian village of Ibn Ibraq which was located at the site of ancient Beneberak, 4 kilometers to the south of wherein present day Bnei Barak was based in 1924. Bnei Brak became founded as an agricultural village by way of 8 Polish Hasidic households who had come to Palestine as a part of the Fourth Aliyah. Yitzchok Gerstenkorn led them. It changed into at the start a moshava, and the primary financial pastime was the cultivation of citrus fruits.