Bnei Berak

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Bnei Berak
Coat of arms of Bnei Berak
Flag of Bnei Berak
Basic data
hebrew : בְּנֵי בְּרַק
arabic : بيني بيراك
State : IsraelIsrael Israel
District : Tel Aviv
Founded : 1924
Coordinates : 32 ° 5 '  N , 34 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 32 ° 5 '0 "  N , 34 ° 50' 0"  E
Area : 7.088  km²
 
Residents : 198,863 (as of 2018)
Population density : 28,056 inhabitants per km²
 
Community code : 6100
Time zone : UTC + 2
 
Community type: city
Bnei Berak (Israel)
Bnei Berak
Bnei Berak

Bnei Berak ( Hebrew בְּנֵי בְּרַק, Arabic بيني بيراك; there are other Latin spellings, e.g. B. Bnei Brak and B (e) ne B (e) raq ) is a city in Israel . It is located northeast of Tel Aviv and is part of the Gush Dan agglomeration . 198,863 inhabitants live in Bnei Brak (as of 2018), most of whom are ultra-Orthodox Jews (Charedim). In the 2006 elections to the Knesset , 81% of Bnei Brak's residents voted for ultra-Orthodox parties, while another 7% voted for religious Zionist parties. The city has the highest population density in Israel and is one of the poorest cities in Israel.

history

A "Bnei Berak" is mentioned in the Tanakh ( Jos 19.45  EU ) as a city in the area of ​​the tribe of Dan , then also in the Talmud and in the Haggada of Pesach in connection with Rabbi Akiba .

The present city was founded on May 14, 1924 by Rabbi Yitzchak Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish Hasidim . In 1950 it received city administration status.

It forms one of the main centers of Torah study and Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox groups worldwide. In Israel, Bnei Berak is regarded as the Charedi city in general, alongside Jerusalem .

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , on April 2, 2020, Bnei Berak became the place in Israel with the highest percentage of infected people based on the total population. Of around 200,000 residents, 7030 had been infected with the virus by April 2, 2020. The place was declared a restricted zone and cordoned off by the police. Army units carried out evacuations on a voluntary basis. The classification as a restricted area was lifted on April 16, 2020.

mayor

  • Hanoch Seibert - since 2013 ( Agudat Israel )
  • Avraham Rubinstein - 2013
  • Yaakov Asher, 2008-2013 ( Degel haTora )
  • Yissachar Frankenthal
  • Mordechai Karelitz
  • Yerachmiel Boyer
  • Irenstein Mosque
  • Schmuel Weinberg
  • Yitzchak Meir
  • Shimon Soroka
  • Reuven Aharonovich
  • Moshe Begno
  • Yitzchak stye

Town twinning

View over Bnei Berak in the Gush Dan agglomeration

United StatesUnited States Lakewood , New Jersey , United States , as of May 31, 2011

Sons and daughters of the place

See also

Web links

Commons : Bnei Berak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Mordecai Naor: Eretz Israel , Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4 , p. 128.
  4. "Police minimize Bnei Brak enforcement on Shabbat; arrest 10 Haredim in Jerusalem" timesofisrael.com from April 4, 2020
  5. ^ Government declares Bnei Brak a restricted area. Israelnetz.de , April 3, 2020, accessed on April 7, 2020 .
  6. Strict curfew lifted again. Israel Network, April 16, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  7. ynetnews.com