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Bnei Brak (or Bene Beraq) ( , ''(unicode:bənê ḇəraq)'') 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 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 172,500, with an annual growth rate of 2.2%. In November 2012, the spokesman for Bnei Brak City Hall released numbers from the Ministry of Interior saying that on 27 September 2012, the population of the city stood at 176 556, making it the 10th largest city in Israel. Bnei Brak is one of the poorest and most densely populated cities in Israel.〔(No walk in the park in Bnei Brak )〕 ==History== Bnei Brak takes its name from the ancient Biblical city of Beneberak, mentioned in the Tanakh (Joshua 19:45) in a long list of towns of ancient Judea. The name is also cited by some as continuing the name of the Palestinian village of Ibn Ibraq ("Son of Ibraq/Barak") which was located to the south of where Bnei Barak was founded in 1924.〔Cancik, Hubert, Peter Schäfer and Hermann Lichtenberger (1996), ''(Geschichte-Tradition-Reflexion: Festschrift Für Martin Hengel Zum 70. Geburtstag )''. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 3-16-146675-6. p. 484.〕 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. Arye Mordechai Rabinowicz, formerly rabbi of Kurów in Poland, was the first rabbi. He was succeeded by Rabbi Yosef Kalisz, a scion of the Vurker dynasty. The town was set up as a religious settlement from the outset, as is evident from this description of the pioneers: "Their souls were revived by the fact that they merited what their predecessors had not. What particularly revived their weary souls in the mornings and toward evening, when they would gather in the beis medrash situated in a special shack which was built immediately upon the arrival of the very first settlers, for tefilla betzibbur (communal prayer) three times a day, for the Daf Yomi shiur, and a Gemara shiur and an additional one in Mishnayos and the Shulchan Oruch."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bnei Brak at 75: City of Torah and Chassidus )〕 In the 1931 census of Palestine the population of ''Benei Beraq'' was 956, all Jewish, in 255 houses.〔Mills, 1932, p. (13 )〕 Bnei Brak achieved city status in 1950. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bnei Brak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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