About Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Dan metropolitan region and Tel Aviv District. Bnei Brak was founded as an agricultural village by Yitzchok Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish chasidim. Due to a lack of land many of the founders turned to other occupations and the village began to develop an urban character. Bnei Brak is a center of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares. According to figures of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2013, the population was 171,500, with an annual growth rate of 1.1%. Bnei Brak takes its name from the ancient Biblical city of Beneberak, mentioned in the Tanakh.