Bareket

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Bareket
בַּרֶקֶת‎
باركيت
Bareket is located in Central Israel
Bareket
Bareket
Coordinates: 32°0′54″N 34°56′39″E / 32.01500°N 34.94417°E / 32.01500; 34.94417Coordinates: 32°0′54″N 34°56′39″E / 32.01500°N 34.94417°E / 32.01500; 34.94417
Grid position144/158 PAL
Country Israel
DistrictCentral
CouncilHevel Modi'in
AffiliationHapoel HaMizrachi
Founded1952
Founded byYemenite Hapoel HaMizrachi members
Population
 (2019)[1]
2,082

Bareket (Hebrew: בַּרֶקֶת, lit. "Emerald") is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 2,082.[1]

History[]

The village was established in 1952 by members of Hapoel HaMizrachi who had immigrated from Habban District in south-east Yemen on the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian village of al-Tira.[2] It was initially named Kfar Halutzim (Pioneers' Village) and then Tirat Yehuda Bet (after nearby Tirat Yehuda), before adopting its current name. Like other villages nearby as Nofekh, Shoham, Leshem and Ahlama (the former name of Beit Arif) nearby, the name relates to one of the 12 stones in the Hoshen, the sacred breastplate worn by a Jewish high priest (Exodus 28:17).[3][4][5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. ^ Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 418. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  3. ^ Carta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land, p94 ISBN 965-220-186-3
  4. ^ Place Names in Israel. A Compendium of Place Names in Israel compiled from various sources, p258
  5. ^ Arie Yizhaqi (1980) Madrich Israel Vol.9, Keter Press, p377 (in Hebrew)
  6. ^ Hanna Bitan (1999) 1948-1998: Fifty Years of 'Hityashvut': Atlas of Names of Settlements in Israel, Carta, p14 ISBN 965-220-423-4 (in Hebrew)
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