Bene Beraq (Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרַק Bəne Bəraq "Sons of Lightning", unofficially also spelled Bnei Brak) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, just east of Tel Aviv, and part of the metropolis known as Gush Dan, the Tel Aviv District. Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than 6 million people, mainly in Israel, the West Bank, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Gush Dan (Hebrew גּוּשׁ דָּן, Standard Hebrew Guš Dan) is the Hebrew name of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Central District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast. ... The Tel Aviv District of Israel includes the following towns and cities: Bat Yam בת ים Bene Beraq בני ברק Givatayim גבעתיים Herzliyya הרצליה Holon חולון Or Yehuda אור יהודה Qiryat Ono קריית אונו Ramat-Gan רמת גן Ramat Ha-Sharon רמת השרון Tel Aviv-Yafo תל-אביב - יפו See...

It has about 160,000 residents, most of whom are Haredi Jews. It also has the largest population density of any city in Israel, with 19,498 persons per sq. km. (56,283 per sq. mile). Haredi or Charedi Judaism, often also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. ...

The city was founded in 1924 by Rabbi Yitzchak Gerstenkorn and a group of Polish Hasidim, and gained official recognition in 1950. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The name originates from a town mentioned in various Jewish sources (e.g. in the Haggadah, section Maggid and in Tosefta Shabbat 4:2). It is not obvious from these sources that Bene Beraq was located in the central coastal strip; in fact, the Galilee is a more plausible location. See also: Bnei Brak. Haggadah for Passover, 14th century Haggadah is also the Hebrew for Aggadah, an Aramaic word refering to the homiletic and non-legal teachings recorded in Rabbinic literature. ... The Tosefta is a second compilation of oral law from the period of the Mishnah. ... Galilee (Hebrew hagalil הגליל, Arabic al-jaleel الجليل), meaning circuit, is a large area overlapping with much of the North District of Israel. ... Mentioned as one of the cities in the portion of the Tribe of Dan (Yehoshua 19:45), Bnei Brak is famous in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 32b) as the seat of Rabbi Akivas court, and in the Pesach Haggada as the site of the all-night Pesach Seder of Rabbi...

Many Hasidic communities exist there and Bene Braq has been a famous city to have Hasidic Rebbes . The famous 20th Century Rabbi, Avraham Yishayahu Karelitz (known as the Chazon Ish) settled there, and due to his presence the town greatly grew in numbers. Hasidic Judaism (from the Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות, meaning pious, from the Hebrew root word chesed חסד meaning loving kindness) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... Rebbe (Hebrew: רבי also rebbi) is a title that may be given to a Rabbi in Orthodox Judaism, particularly within Hasidic Judaism. ... Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, The Chazon Ish Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (also Yishayahu, Yeshayah, Yeshayah, Yishaya - in English Abraham Isaiah Karelitz) (1878-1953) known by his pen name as the Chazon Ish (in Hebrew: Vision [of] Man), was a Lithuanian born Orthodox rabbi who became leader of Haredi Judaism in Israel. ...

It is a very large center for Orthodox Jews. Of the city's 160,000 inhabitants, at least three-quarters are strictly Orthodox Jews. The non-religious population is located in the northern part of the city. The religious part of the city is completely closed off to vehicular traffic during the Shabbat (from friday night until saturday night), all stores in the city are under rabbinical supervision, and not a single store is open during the Shabbat. According to many, Bnei Brak is the greatest center of Jewish learning in the world, greater even than Jerusalem.

In contrast to Jerusalem, where a sizable part of the Orthodox Jewish community consists of Americans and other foreign-born Jews, the vast majority of Orthodox Jews in Bnei Brak are Israelis who speak only Hebrew, since in their schools, secular subjects including English are not taught.